A genetic analysis of a million individuals with stutters has clued Australian researchers into a potential genetic component that would revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of this common disorder.

400 million people worldwide have stutters, and a cross-Pacific partnership between Curtin Stuttering Treatment Clinic in Western Australia a Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, identified 48 genes that show a hereditary link.

Scientists will almost always feel that pause will give pride, yet the authors heralded their work as “groundbreaking” and something that will help pave the way towards pre-verbal diagnosis of stuttering.

Stutters tend to emerge shortly after a child becomes verbal, but the longer a stutter is in the child’s speech motor system, one of the study authors s

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