Handedness, language lateralisation and anatomical asymmetry: Relevance of protocadherinXY to hominid speciation and the aetiology of psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 181, Issue OCT., 2002, Pages 295-297

  Crow, T J ^a  

^a WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT SURVEY;

BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036795782     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.181.4.295     Document Type: Short Survey

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