ArticleScience advances2023
Sequence variants affecting voice pitch in humans.
Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Embracing variability: toward proactive and precision-based voice science.Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology · 2026Review
- Ancient regulatory evolution shapes individual language abilities in present-day humans.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Genetic association analysis of human median voice pitch identifies a common locus for tonal and non-tonal languages.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
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- Toward an evolutionary account of the changes in the human pitch vocal system.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The genetic basis of the human vocal system is largely unknown, as are the sequence variants that give rise to individual differences in voice and speech. Here, we couple data on diversity in the sequence of the genome with voice and vowel acoustics in speech recordings from 12,901 Icelanders. We show how voice pitch and vowel acoustics vary across the life span and correlate with anthropometric, physiological, and cognitive traits. We found that voice pitch and vowel acoustics have a heritable component and discovered correlated common variants in
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