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SUBMITTER: Ocklenburg S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5295814 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ocklenburg Sebastian S Schmitz Judith J Moinfar Zahra Z Moser Dirk D Klose Rena R Lor Stephanie S Kunz Georg G Tegenthoff Martin M Faustmann Pedro P Francks Clyde C Epplen Jörg T JT Kumsta Robert R Güntürkün Onur O
eLife 20170201
Lateralization is a fundamental principle of nervous system organization but its molecular determinants are mostly unknown. In humans, asymmetric gene expression in the fetal cortex has been suggested as the molecular basis of handedness. However, human fetuses already show considerable asymmetries in arm movements before the motor cortex is functionally linked to the spinal cord, making it more likely that spinal gene expression asymmetries form the molecular basis of handedness. We analyzed ge ...[more]