PCSK6 VNTR Polymorphism Is Associated with Degree of Handedness but Not Direction of Handedness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Arning, Larissa ^a   Ocklenburg, Sebastian ^a   Schulz, Stefanie ^a   Ness, Vanessa ^a   Gerding, Wanda M ^a   Hengstler, Jan G ^b   Falkenstein, Michael ^b   Epplen, Jörg T ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Beste, Christian ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRON; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LRRTM1 GENE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PCSK6 GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY;

LRRTM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PCSK6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 84879547317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067251     Document Type: Article

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