First Genetic Clue to Common Speech Disorder

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Blonterstaping. Perplisteronk. Contramponist. People who have trouble remembering and repeating nonsense words like these have a common speech and language disorder called specific language impairment (SLI). Although SLI clearly runs in families, the genes responsible have been hard to pin down. Now, a group has found the first such gene, one that had been previously tied to a language disorder in autism

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