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Handedness, language dominance and aphasia: a genetic model
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A simple two-allele Mendelian model of the genetics of handedness is described and fitted to data in the literature. The model proposes that there are two alleles, D (dextral) and C (chance), the homozygous DD genotype producing only right-handers (directional asymmetry), the homozygous CC genotype producing a racemic mixture of 50% right-handers and 50% left-handers (fluctuating asymmetry), and the heterozygote, DC, being intermediate between the homozygotes and producing 25% left-handers, and 75% right-handers. It is also suggested that the true population incidence of left-handedness is 7.75%, deviations from this figure being due to either criterion shifts or selection biases. The same model is then fitted, by means of a number of minor conceptual extensions, to data from the literature on the relationship of handedness to language dominance, acute and permanent aphasia, and visual processing dominance.
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- Authors
- McManus, I. C.
- Venue
- Psychological Medicine. Monograph Supplement
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1985-01-01
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 3-40
- ISSN
- 0264-1801 (ISSN-L)
- 2051-2023
- OpenAlex
- W2125851417
- Cited by
- 349
- References
- 79
- FWCI
- 1.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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