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Left-handedness: etiological clues from situs inversus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Alfred Wehrmaker
Affiliation:
Biologisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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