Left-handedness and inheritance of bronchial asthma

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 371-372

  Andreou, Georgia ^b   Karapetsas, A ^b   Gourgoulianis, K I ^a   Molyvdas, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GREECE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

ASTHMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0034167715     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2000.90.2.371     Document Type: Article

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