Since reading about the hair whorl study, I’ve been checking out the tops of men’s heads to see which way their whorl turns. While standing on a Brown Line train next to passengers fortunate ...

Traditionally, hair whorls are categorized by a whorl number, single or double, as well as direction, whether they swirl clockwise or counterclockwise.

The late Indian geneticist Amar J. S. Klar conducted research to see if there was a genetic link between handedness and hair-whorl direction and found that 8.4% of right-handed people and 45% of ...

The study identifies four associated genetic variants (at 7p21.3, 5q33.2, 7q33, and 14q32.13).These genetic variants are likely to influence hair whorl direction by regulating the cell polarity of ...

The first gene mapping study on human scalp hair whorls not only shows that hair whorl direction has a genetic basis, but also that it is affected by multiple genes. Four associated genetic ...

Southern hair whorls. Three northern hemisphere scientists – Marjolaine Willems, Quentin Hennocq and Roman Hossein Khonsari in Paris, France – teamed up with a southern hemisphere scientist ...

People with one or two copies of the right version would be right-handed, with clockwise hair; those with two random versions would split 50/50 for handedness and hair whorls. He is now seeking ...

Indeed, since the author himself (p. 122) is fain to admit that hair-whorls, featherings, &c. (as he terms the various abnormalities in the direction of the hair) ...

Geneticists refer to them as "hair whorls," but the rest of us call them "cowlicks," locks of hair that grow in different directions from the rest of the hair. Typically, ...