ArticleGenetics2005
A 1927 study supports a current genetic model for inheritance of human scalp hair-whorl orientation and hand-use preference traits.
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- From cytoskeletal dynamics to organ asymmetry: a nonlinear, regulative pathway underlies left-right patterning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Predicting the Permanent Safe Donor Area for Hair Transplantation in Koreans with Male Pattern Baldness according to the Position of the Parietal Whorl.Archives of plastic surgery · 2014Article
- A proposal for re-defining the way the aetiology of schizophrenia and bipolar human psychiatric diseases is investigated.Journal of biosciences · 2010Article
- Scalp hair-whorl orientation of Japanese individuals is random; hence, the trait's distribution is not genetically determined.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2009Review
- Handedness and time to pregnancy.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2009Article
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Abstract
The basis of right- vs. left-hand-use preference in humans has been debated for a long time. Culturally learned, birth stress, and biologically specified causes are the prominent etiologies under consideration. A 2003 (Klar 2003) study reported a correlation between a person's preferred hand and the scalp hair-whorl orientation developed on the head. By reinterpreting results of a 1927 (Schwarzburg 1927) study on the genetics of the hair-whorl trait, support for a recent single gene, two-allele "random-recessive model" for both hair-whorl orientation and handedness trait inheritance is demonstrated.
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