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dc.contributor.authorPackheiser, Julian
dc.contributor.authorSchmitz, Judith
dc.contributor.authorBerretz, Gessa
dc.contributor.authorCarey, David P.
dc.contributor.authorParacchini, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorPapadatou-Pastou, Marietta
dc.contributor.authorOcklenburg, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-03T16:30:02Z
dc.date.available2020-09-03T16:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-02
dc.identifier.citationPackheiser , J , Schmitz , J , Berretz , G , Carey , D P , Paracchini , S , Papadatou-Pastou , M & Ocklenburg , S 2020 , ' Four meta-analyses across 164 studies on atypical footedness prevalence and its relation to handedness ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 10 , 14501 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71478-wen
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 269927732
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 462815a1-f725-416b-84a8-0de209e3288c
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9934-8602/work/79918766
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85090124376
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000608582600014
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20540
dc.descriptionFunding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Research Training Group “Situated Cognition” (GRK 2185/1) and Grant number OC 127/9-1. The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (Grant ref: 102215/2/13/2) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. This publication is the work of the authors and S.P. and J.S. will serve as guarantors for the analysis of the ALSPAC data presented in this paper. J.S. is funded by the DFG (Project number: 418445085). S.P. is funded by the Royal Society. D.P.C. is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Open Access funding was provided by Projekt DEAL. We acknowledge the support by the DFG Open Access Publication Funds of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.en
dc.description.abstractHuman lateral preferences, such as handedness and footedness, have interested researchers for decades due to their pronounced asymmetries at the population level. While there are good estimates on the prevalence of handedness in the population, there is no large-scale estimation on the prevalence of footedness. Furthermore, the relationship between footedness and handedness still remains elusive. Here, we conducted meta-analyses with four different classification systems for footedness on 145,135 individuals across 164 studies including new data from the ALSPAC cohort. The study aimed to determine a reliable point estimate of footedness, to study the association between footedness and handedness, and to investigate moderating factors influencing footedness. We showed that the prevalence of atypical footedness ranges between 12.10% using the most conservative criterion of left-footedness to 23.7% including all left- and mixed-footers as a single non-right category. As many as 60.1% of left-handers were left-footed whereas only 3.2% of right-handers were left-footed. Males were 4.1% more often non-right-footed compared to females. Individuals with psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders exhibited a higher prevalence of non-right-footedness. Furthermore, the presence of mixed-footedness was higher in children compared to adults and left-footedness was increased in athletes compared to the general population. Finally, we showed that footedness is only marginally influenced by cultural and social factors, which play a crucial role in the determination of handedness. Overall, this study provides new and useful reference data for laterality research. Furthermore, the data suggest that footedness is a valuable phenotype for the study of lateral motor biases, its underlying genetics and neurodevelopment.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reportsen
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dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQH426 Geneticsen
dc.subjectRC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQH426en
dc.subject.lccRC0321en
dc.titleFour meta-analyses across 164 studies on atypical footedness prevalence and its relation to handednessen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorThe Royal Societyen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Medicineen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biophotonicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complexen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Cellular Medicine Divisionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71478-w
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberRGF\EA\180141en


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