The genetics of situs inversus without primary ciliary dyskinesia

MC Postema, A Carrion-Castillo, SE Fisher… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Situs inversus (SI), a left-right mirror reversal of the visceral organs, can occur with recessive
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD). However, most people with SI do not have PCD, and the …

It is not just in the genes

M Manns - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
Asymmetries in the functional and structural organization of the nervous system are
widespread in the animal kingdom and especially characterize the human brain. Although …

Atypical brain asymmetry in human situs inversus: gut feeling or real evidence?

G Vingerhoets, R Gerrits, H Verhelst - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
The alignment of visceral and brain asymmetry observed in some vertebrate species raises
the question of whether this association also exists in humans. While the visceral and brain …

Brain functional segregation, handedness and cognition in situs inversus totalis: a replication study

R Gerrits, G Vingerhoets - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare congenital anomaly in which the arrangement of the
visceral organs is completely left-right mirrored. A previous study by our lab suggests that …

Brain structural and functional asymmetry in human situs inversus totalis

G Vingerhoets, X Li, L Hou, S Bogaert… - Brain Structure and …, 2018 - Springer
Magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate brain structural and functional
asymmetries in 15 participants with complete visceral reversal (situs inversus totalis, SIT) …

Left temporal plane growth predicts language development in newborns with congenital heart disease

A Jakab, E Meuwly, M Feldmann, M Rhein, R Kottke… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Congenital heart defects are the most common congenital anomalies, accounting for a third
of all congenital anomaly cases. While surgical correction dramatically improved survival …

Atypical brain functional segregation is more frequent in situs inversus totalis

G Vingerhoets, R Gerrits, S Bogaert - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
Most humans show typical brain functional specialization with language and praxis favoring
left hemisphere lateralization and spatial attention and face recognition showing right …

The prenatal origins of human brain asymmetry: Lessons learned from a cohort of fetuses with body lateralization defects

P Kienast, E Schwartz, MC Diogo, GM Gruber… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Knowledge about structural brain asymmetries of human fetuses with body
lateralization defects—congenital diseases in which visceral organs are partially or …

Left-Right Brain-Wide Asymmetry of Neuroanatomy in the Mouse Brain

A Silberfeld, JM Roe, J Ellegood, JP Lerch, L Qiu… - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Left-right asymmetry of the human brain is widespread through its anatomy and function.
However, limited microscopic understanding of it exists, particularly for anatomical …

Tracing the structural origins of atypical language representation: Consequences of prenatal mirror-imaged brain asymmetries in a dizygotic twin couple

AL Schuler, L Bartha-Doering, A Jakab… - Brain Structure and …, 2018 - Springer
We investigated the predictive value of prenatal superior temporal sulcus (STS) depth
asymmetry in a special case of a female dizygotic twin that showed inverted prenatal …