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PMID
6890845
TITLE
Directional and absolute asymmetry of digital ridge counts.
ABSTRACT
Distributions, correlations and weighted least squares estimates of the components of variation in right-left asymmetry for individual finger ridge counts have been obtained from 221 pairs of twins and 80 pairs of opposite sex siblings. Asymmetry has been measured by two indices: signed right-left difference representing unidirectional asymmetry and absolute difference, representing ambidirectional asymmetry. The results indicate that both types of asymmetry are largely under environmental control, but with significant genetic components, particularly in males. The proportion of genetic variation in these measures of asymmetry varies somewhat between individual fingers.
DATE PUBLISHED
1982
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1982/01/01
medline 1982/01/01 00:01
entrez 1982/01/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Loesch D Loesch D D
Martin NG Martin N G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 6
ISSUE: 2
TITLE: Acta anthropogenetica
ISOABBREVIATION: Acta Anthropogenet
YEAR: 1982
MONTH:
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
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CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0258-0357
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Acta Anthropogenet
COUNTRY: INDIA
ISSNLINKING: 0258-0357
NLMUNIQUEID: 7801158
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Dermatoglyphics
Female
Genetic Variation
Humans
Male
Pregnancy
Sex Factors
Statistics as Topic
Twins
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's