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SUBMITTER: Peretz I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1950825 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of human genetics 20070720 3
Congenital amusia (commonly known as "tone deafness") is a lifelong impairment of music perception that affects 4% of the population. To estimate whether congenital amusia can be genetically transmitted, its prevalence was quantified by direct auditory testing of 71 members of 9 large families of amusic probands, as well as of 75 members of 10 control families. The results confirm that congenital amusia is expressed by a deficit in processing musical pitch but not musical time and also show that ...[more]