commentr/StutterMarch 26, 2014

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the phenotypic concordance for identical twins is likely 50-70% (some studies vary but all indicate that it's much higher than the incidence of stuttering in the general population). This suggests, as you rightly point out, there is a genetic component to stuttering, but other factors play a role and it's not solely genetics that contributes to stuttering.

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