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Left Handed Gene discovered! Gene for left-handedness is found  25% chance no matter if both parents are left handed or not!  Thus, the question now is, why are we only 10% of the population???     31 July 07 19:33 GMT  Scientists have discovered the first gene which appears to increase the odds of being left-handed.  The Oxford University-led team believe carrying the gene may also slightly raise the risk of developing psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia.  The gene, LRRTM1, appears to play a key role in controlling which parts of the brain take control of specific functions, such as speech and emotion.  The study appears in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.  The brain is set up in an asymmetrical way.  In right-handed people the left side of the brain usually controls speech and language, and the right side controls emotions.  However, in left-handed people the opposite is often true, and the researchers believe the LRRTM1 gene is responsible for this flip.  They also believe people with the LRRTM1 gene may have a raised risk of schizophrenia, a condition often linked to unusual balances of brain function.  Further research  Lead researcher Dr Clyde Francks, from Oxford University's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, said the next step would be to probe the impact on the development of the brain further.  He said: "We hope this study's findings will help us understand the development of asymmetry in the brain.  "Asymmetry is a fundamental feature of the human brain that is disrupted in many psychiatric conditions."  However, Dr Francks said left-handed people should not be worried by the links between handedness and schizophrenia.  He said: "There are many factors which make individuals more likely to develop schizophrenia and the vast majority of left-handers will never develop a problem.  "We don't yet know the precise role of this gene."  About 10% of people are left-handed.  Differences  There is evidence to suggest there are some significant differences between left and right-handed people.  Australian research published last year found left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport.  And French researchers concluded that being left-handed could be an advantage in hand-to-hand combat.  However, being left-handed has also been linked to a greater risk of some diseases, and to having an accident.  Dr Fred Kavalier, a consultant geneticist at London's Guy's Hospital, said: "I don't think left-handed people should be alarmed.  "Undoubtedly there are many, many other factors that contribute to schizophrenia. This may be a tiny little element in the big jigsaw."  'Devastating condition'  Marjorie Wallace, of the mental health charity SANE, said scientists working in its research centre in Oxford were also looking at the link between brain asymmetry and schizophrenia.  She said: "We desperately need research into the origins of psychosis to better understand why some people are more vulnerable than others.  "Then the treatment could be more targeted and carry the potential to prevent this devastating condition which affects one in 100 people worldwide."  Jane Harris, of the mental health charity Rethink, said: "No-one really understands what causes schizophrenia yet.  "It is probably a combination of factors, including genetics, problems in childbirth, viral infections, drug use, poverty and urbanisation."

Why is life left-handed? The answer is in the stars Published: July 20, 2015 9.20am EDT Author 1. Elizabeth Tasker Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University Disclosure statement Elizabeth Tasker is a faculty member at Hokkaido University. Partners View all partners   We believe in the free flow of information Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Republish this article   A needle in a haystack? Search for the first ever biological molecule. Hubble Heritage/Flickr, CC BY-SA  Email  Twitter80  Facebook572  LinkedIn  Print While most humans are right-handed, our proteins are made up of lefty molecules. In the same way your left and right hands mirror one another, molecules can assemble in two reflected structures. Life prefers the left-handed version, which is puzzling since both mirrored types form equally in the laboratory. But a new study suggests that this may be because the star-forming cloud that created the first-ever biological molecule, before our sun was even born, made it left-handed. In 2004, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft swept through the nebulous halo surrounding a comet. What it found was the simplest of life’s building blocks: the amino acid glycine. Comets are frozen remnants from the earliest days in our solar system. Their material is therefore not made in planets, but likely originates in the natal gas cloud that formed our sun. A research team recently recreated the freezing conditions inside such a star-forming cloud. In apparatus sealed completely from the already crisp air in the laboratory, the temperature can be brought down to -263 degrees Celsius, just ten degrees above absolute zero where even molecules stop vibrating. They believed that on the surface of dust grains suspended in this chilly gas, glycine may have undergone a change that made it left-handed.   Protein molecules: just a bunch of lefties. Perhelion/wikimedia At the core of the glycine molecule is a carbon atom with four bonds. If two of these bonds attach to hydrogen atoms, then the molecule is symmetric and neither right nor left handed. However, swap a hydrogen for a heavier atom and this symmetry is broken. The molecule can then form two mirrored versions, giving it handedness or “chirality” as it is called in chemistry. How The Conversation is different: We explain without oversimplifying. Learn more The experiments suggest that a glycine hydrogen atom could be displaced by an atom of deuterium, which is a heavier version of hydrogen that contains an extra neutron in its nucleus, doubling its weight. It is abundant inside star-forming clouds, which is why they create many deuterium-enriched compounds, including heavy water. Once a deuterium atom has replaced a hydrogen, it is very hard to dislodge. This means that the fraction of chiral glycine steadily increases, until the main species of glycine inside the cloud shows left or right handedness. Chiral glycine is very similar to original glycine, but with an important extra property. Laboratory experiments have shown that chiral glycine is a catalyst for other chiral molecules. That is, it promotes the production of other species with the same handedness as itself. The result is that if glycine became a left-handed molecule, then future biological molecules would also be predominantly left-handed. When life developed on Earth, it would therefore build from a pool of left-handed molecules, giving it the bias we observe today. Pinning down glycine in space This discovery potentially resolves another issue. While glycine is expected to be abundant inside star-forming clouds, it has never actually been observed. Individual molecules absorb different wavelengths of the starlight passing through them. Which wavelengths are absorbed depends on the atoms and their arrangement, providing a fingerprint for the presence of a particular molecule. Glycine’s fingerprint has never been seen. However, these searches have been looking for the symmetric version of glycine, not its left-handed twin. If most of the glycine was left-handed, it would absorb different wavelengths and be missed. It is an exciting idea, but many questions still remain. In the new experiment, the scientists could tell that deuterium had replaced hydrogen to form chiral glycine, but the quantities were too small to see which mirrored version had formed. It could be that the dust grain structure favours left or right handedness. Alternatively, both types could form but one might be more easily destroyed. The answer to this would tell us if life beyond our own solar system is expected to share our left-handed bias.  https://theconversation.com/why-is-life-left-handed-the-answer-is-in-the-stars-44862 

Documents forthcoming

We have some however not enough to make the statement that left-handers are all sick!

I and my wife would agree to this one.  LOL  This has been stated in documentation.  This will be forthcoming.  

This is not exactly correct.  Roughly, 30% of the dominant left handers use the right hemisphere for speech while the majority of left handers still use the left hemisphere for speech.  However, there is more crossing over and more utilization of the right hemisphere to the extent that the two hemispheres are more equal in size than that of a right-hander.  This is evident in the autopsy of Albert Einstein and others.   More documentation forthcoming.

This is also not exactly correct.  Left-handers have been more correctly labeled as "Divergent Thinkers".  This means that left-handers do see and experience the world a bit different than their counterpart right-hander.  The right hemisphere does support creativity along with most of the arts.  Many highly skilled artist were and are left-handed.  More research is needed on this topic. 

The main culprit is chain saws and power saws.  More government money is spent on shark attacks than left handed children.  

2500 Left Handers Die each year   Check about half way down.  This comes from the British new paper, The Mirror.    Scientists calculate odd ways to die  ·         00:00, 30 MAY 2008  ·         UPDATED 17:18, 3 APR 2014  BY MATT ROPER    

Death may be the only certainty in life - but how it comes about is anything but certain. Check out the odds on odd ways of passing on.  Death may be the only certainty in life - but how it comes about is anything but certain.  Papers released from secret government archives this week revealed that in 1980 government scientists were told to calculate the exact chances of a Brit being killed by a falling asteroid.  The study was an attempt to persuade the public that nuclear power was safe, and that there were plenty of other things that were statistically more lethal than a neighborhood reactor.  After much consideration, the men in white coats calculated that that one member of the public would be killed by an asteroid every 7,000 years.  Here the Daily Mirror looks at some other causes of death -and just what the odds are of your meeting your Maker in that way...    

300,000,000/1 shark attack  Around 40 people are killed every year from shark attacks, with the numbers increasing as more people take holidays on coasts where sharks live.    

300,000,000/1 fairground accident  The worst rollercoaster accident in Britain was in 1972 when five children were killed on the Big Dipper in Battersea, London, when one of the cars broke loose and collided with another. Just last week 29 people were injured when the Runaway Mine Train at Alton Towers split in two.    

250,000,000/1 falling coconut  Coconuts apparently kill around 150 people every year. Falling from a height of 80 feet, they can build up an impact speed of 50 mph.    

11,000,000/1 plane crash  Plane crashes worldwide claim 1,300 people every year. Young men are most likely to emerge from the wreckage alive - and 12 per cent of passengers who survive the impact will die from shock later.   

10,000,000/1 killed by lightning  In the UK around five people are killed by being hit by lightning every year. And men are four times more likely to be struck than women. 

10,000,000/1 killed by the escape of radiation from a nearby nuclear power station  The chances of an explosion at a nuclear reactor are increasing with the risk of terrorism and as conventional fuels run out. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its aftermath has killed an estimated 30,000 people. 

9,300,000/1 dying in a terrorist attack  Last year there were 651 significant international terrorist attacks worldwide, killing nearly 2,000 people.

5,000,000/1 scalded by hot water  Children under five are most at risk, with 126 accidents reported every year in Britain. In Japan, around 150 people die from hot water scalding every year.    ***

4,400,000/1 left-handed people killed using a right-handed product  More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year around the world from using equipment meant for right-handed people. The right-handed power saw is the most deadly item.

3,500,000/1 dying of a snake bite  Snake bites kill an estimated 25,000 people a year. More people die from snakebite in India than in any other country in the world, with the total death toll estimated I to average 10 - 12,000 annually.

3,000,000/1 dying from food poisoning  More than 79,000 cases of food poisoning were reported last year in the UK, while every year around 200 people die as a result of eating contaminated food.    

2,300,000/1 dying from falling off a ladder  On average 15 people die from falling off ladders every year in Britain, and around 1,200 suffer serious injuries. A quarter of all falls happen off ladders. 

2,000,000/1 dying after falling out of bed  In Britain around 20 people die from falling out of bed every year, with the young and the elderly most at risk.  

685,000/1 drowning in the bath  A higher percentage of people drown in their bath water than in public swimming pools, with young children and the elderly most at risk. Around 25 babies drown in baths every year.   

500,000/1 being killed in a train crash  Despite a number of fatal crashes, public transport is still the safest way to travel. Buses are even safer than trains, with the odds of being killed 13 million to one. 

43,500/1 being killed in an accident at work  More accidents happen at work than anywhere else. Every year there are more than 25,000 serious workplace accidents, killing around 300 people in the UK.    

8,000/1 killed in a road accident  Every year 1,500 car drivers and adult passengers die in road smashes, while around 1,000 pedestrians and cyclists die in road accidents. Worldwide, over 3,000 people are killed in road crashes daily.    

5/1 dying from cancer  Around 130,000 people die from cancer every \ year, of whom 65,000 are ' aged under 75. The most common killers are lung, breast, colon and prostate cancer.    

2.5/1 dying from a heart attack or stroke  The leading cause of death in Britain, coronary heart disease and strokes account for over 200,000 deaths every I year. Someone has a heart attack every two minutes.