Genetic Epidemiology, Translational Neurogenomics, Psychiatric Genetics and Statistical Genetics Laboratories investigate the pattern of disease in families, particularly identical and non-identical twins, to assess the relative importance of genes and environment in a variety of important health problems.
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7118563
TITLE
A genetical analysis of diversity and asymmetry in finger ridge counts.
ABSTRACT
The genetics of asymmetry and diversity of finger ridge counts in man has been examined by jointly regressing the individual counts of each hand on to the mean values summed over left and right hands in a sample of twins. The resulting asymmetry terms are largely under environmental control but with a small significant genetic component. The diversity items show a larger degree of genetic control with a suggestion of dominance or additive X additive epistasis.
DATE PUBLISHED
1982 Jun
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1982/06/01
medline 1982/06/01 00:01
entrez 1982/06/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Martin NG Martin N G NG
Jinks JL Jinks J L JL
Berry HS Berry H S HS
Loesch DZ Loesch D Z DZ
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 48
ISSUE: Pt 3
TITLE: Heredity
ISOABBREVIATION: Heredity (Edinb)
YEAR: 1982
MONTH: Jun
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0018-067X
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Heredity (Edinb)
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 0018-067X
NLMUNIQUEID: 0373007
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Dermatoglyphics
Female
Genetics, Population
Humans
Male
Models, Genetic
Regression Analysis
Sex Factors
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's