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Handedness as a function of twinning, age and sex.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior - 1 Mar 1994

Davis A, Annett M

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Questions about twin birth, sex, age and handedness for writing were asked as part of a survey of hearing disability (Davis, 1989) in a large sample of the adult population. The findings show unequivocally that the prevalence of left handedness is higher in twins than in the singleborn, in males than in females and in younger than in older adults. There was a marked and regular decline in the percentage of left...

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PMID: 8004980
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-9452(13)80326-7

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