Subject: Is being left or right handed linked to genentics ?

Date: Sat Jan 3 12:52:58 1998
Posted by Julien Collette
Grade level: undergrad
School: Center of Excellence in Agricultural and Biotechnologic Sciences (CEABS)
City: Grand Falls State/Province: New-Brunswick
Country: Canada
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 883853578.Ge
Message:

In our class room, we were ask to do a project concerning the 
hereditability of being left or right handed. I tried looking for 
this information on a search engine, but came up blank.

As asked above, I would like to know if left or right handed 
individuals are linked to genetics. I would like to ask this question 
to a Genetist, a psychiatrist and a neurologist as to get the whole 
of the answer if possible.

As for myself, I do not think that it is linked to genetics 
specifically, but to the developpement of the neuroprocessors 
responsible for eye-hand coordination in the infant.

Thank you,

Julien
Student at the CEABS, Grand Falls, NB, Canada.


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