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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genes Brain Behav. 2013 Jun;12(4):446–452. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12044

Table 2.

Correlations Among Handedness Measures

Direction Strength
Phenotypic
Reach Gesture Reach Gesture
 Gesture .22 (.11, .32) .05 (−.06, .15)
 Tube .26 (.16, .36) .05 (−.06, .15) .14 (.03, .24) −.09 (−.19, .02)

Additive Genetic
Reach Gesture Reach Gesture
 Gesture −.01 (−.40, .57) .14 (−.28, .47)
 Tube .33 (−.24, .62) .03 (−.44, .49) .09 (−.23, .46) −.28 (−.58, .04)

Additive Genetic (mother)
Reach Gesture Reach Gesture
 Gesture −.18 (−.57, .45) .26 (−.21, .49)
 Tube .45 (.01, .81) −.21 (−.63, .38) −.01 (−.36, .33) −.40 (−.64, .03)

Additive Genetic (human)
Reach Gesture Reach Gesture
 *Gesture .44 (−.43, .78) −.06 (−.44, .38)
 Tube .56 (−.31, .82) .67 (−.40, .78) .25 (−.82, 1.0) −.34 (−.67, .29)

Unique environmental
Reach Gesture Reach Gesture
 Gesture .26 (.07, .57) −.08 (−.82, .42)
 Tube .36 (.11, .51) .08 (−.13, .29) .26 (−.23, .46) .05 (−.21, .37)

Maternal environmental
Reach Gesture Reach Gesture
 Gesture .00 (−.42, .40) −.03, (−.36, .27)
 Tube .37 (−.03, .71) −.04 (−.44, .44) .10 (−.22, .42) −.12 (−.41, .28)

Phenotypic correlations point estimates from handedness indices with 95% confidence intervals in brackets. Additive genetic, unique environment, and maternal environment correlations from animal model with posterior mode and 95% coverage intervals in brackets. Correlations significantly different from 0 highlighted in bold.