Handedness as a continuous variable with dextral shift: sex, generation, and family handedness in subgroups of left- and right-handers.

doi:10.1007/BF01067928

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Handedness as a continuous variable with dextral shift: sex, generation, and family handedness in subgroups of left- and right-handers.

Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 1994

Annett M

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Percentages of left-handed relatives were compared between subgroups of left-handers and of right-handers to test the prediction that the subgroups are ordered for probability of carrying the rs +/gene (hypothesized by the right-shift theory of handedness). Data included families of undergraduate...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Child
Female
Functional Laterality
Genotype
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Genetic
Pedigree
Phenotype
Sex Factors

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