Digital ridge counts and genetic fields
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics
- Vol. 47 (2) , 151-158
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00273197
Abstract
Principal components analysis of quantitative digital dermatoglyphics in a large Oxfordshire sample, subdivided into male, female, urban, and rural subsamples, suggests several distinguishable components. These appear meaningful biologically in that they resemble factors of limb growth, as suggested by evidence from disturbances in limb extremity development. The components are consistent in all four subsamples and are very similar to those identified in a large sample of Berkshire data. It is suggested that digital quantitative dermatoglyphic variation may provide an example of genetic field theory.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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