ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Triplets, birthweight, and handedness.
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- Handedness in twins: meta-analyses.BMC psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Non-right-handedness and psychiatric disorders: A synthesis of epidemiological, genetic, and neurobiological evidence.World journal of psychiatry · 2026Review
- Adaptive olfactory circuitry restores function despite severe olfactory bulb degeneration.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Handedness in low-birthweight children: Insights in lateralization.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Large-Scale Phenomic and Genomic Analysis of Brain Asymmetrical Skew.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Is Handedness at Five Associated with Prenatal Factors?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Non-right-handedness in children born extremely preterm: Relation to early neuroimaging and long-term neurodevelopment.PloS one · 2020Article
- A large-scale population study of early life factors influencing left-handedness.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Revisiting sources of left-handedness in multiple-birth individuals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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Abstract
The mechanisms behind handedness formation in humans are still poorly understood. Very low birthweight is associated with higher odds of left-handedness, but whether this is due to low birthweight itself or premature birth is unknown. Handedness has also been linked to development, but the role of birthweight behind this association is unclear. Knowing that birthweight is lower in multiple births, triplets being about 1.5 kg lighter in comparison with singletons, and that multiples have a higher prevalence of left-handedness than singletons, we studied the association between birthweight and handedness in two large samples consisting exclusively of triplets from Japan (
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