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Published online 4 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030901-7
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Handedness equals hairstyle
One gene might control both - and explain the divided brain.
Right-handed people tend to have hair that swirls clockwise, a US researcher has discovered1.
Amar Klar of the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, surreptitiously inspected people's pates by spying on them in airports and shopping malls - ignoring the long-haired and the bald.
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