{"id":95830,"date":"2019-09-05T02:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/geneticists-are-untangling-the-mystery-of-left-handedness"},"modified":"2019-09-05T02:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:57:16","slug":"geneticists-are-untangling-the-mystery-of-left-handedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/geneticists-are-untangling-the-mystery-of-left-handedness","title":{"rendered":"Geneticists Are Untangling the Mystery of Left-Handedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geneticists-are-untangling-the-mystery-of-left-handedness3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A series of genetic variants can influence handedness, according to a new paper.<\/p>\n<p>No, researchers have not discovered a \u201chandedness gene.\u201d But through brain imaging of 9,000 people in the United Kingdom, researchers devised a list of genetic variations that contribute to the way different brain processes end up on either side of the brain. This, in turn influences handedness\u2014and can also influence whether someone will develop certain neurological diseases, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/brain\/awz257.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the paper<\/a> published in the journal Brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of genetic variants can influence handedness, according to a new paper. No, researchers have not discovered a \u201chandedness gene.\u201d But through brain imaging of 9,000 people in the United Kingdom, researchers devised a list of genetic variations that contribute to the way different brain processes end up on either side of the brain. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}