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Sensorimotor asymmetry, physical development, annual increments in the body size, functional state and adaptive potential as expressed by circulatory indices, life index, and functional test results were evaluated in 142 healthy Nenets adolescents from a boarding school and 60 healthy Russian pupils. Dextral and sinistral phenotypes were represented unequally in the children of both groups; the former was more common among the Russians. The subjects' adaptive capacities depended on their sex and the predominance of particular signs of interhemispheric functional asymmetry.
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Grebneva, N.N., Krivoshchekov, S.G. The Adaptive Potential of Adolescents in the North and Its Relation to Interhemispheric Functional Asymmetry. Human Physiology 27, 529–534 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011943807577
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