UNSPECIFIED (2000) A note on Corballis (1997) and the genetics and evolution of handedness: Developing a unified distributional model from the sex-chromosomes gene hypothesis. PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, 107 (1). pp. 213-218. ISSN 0033-295X

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Abstract

A unified, quantitative model for sex, twin, parent, and grandparent influences on handedness is presented. Recent research modeling the evolutionary development of genetic mechanisms for the transmission of handedness on the basis of genotype fitness has appeared to lead to the conclusion that a handedness gene cannot be located on the sex chromosomes. It is shown in this article, however, that this conclusion is not of general validity. The sex-chromosomes hypothesis is developed further, and it is demonstrated that a wide-ranging, detailed, and parsimonious account of the distribution of handedness is obtained when left-handedness is assumed to be associated recessively, and with low penetrance, with genetic variation located on the X chromosome.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Journal or Publication Title:	PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
Publisher:	AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
ISSN:	0033-295X
Date:	January 2000
Volume:	107
Number:	1
Number of Pages:	6
Page Range:	pp. 213-218
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/13430

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