Left-handedness in twins: Genes or environment?

Cortex

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 479-490

  Orlebeke, Jacob F ^a   Knol, Dirk L ^a   Koopmans, Judith R ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Bleker, Otto P ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; FATHER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; TWINS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0029813572     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(96)80005-0     Document Type: Article

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