The other side of the coin: A hypothesis concerning the importance of genes for high intelligence and evolution of the X chromosome

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 206-208

  Lubs, Herbert A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032999012     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19990730)85:3<206::AID-AJMG3>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Note

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