Sex and race differences in finger ridge‐count correlations
- 31 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Vol. 46 (1) , 171-176
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330460122
Abstract
Correlations between ridge‐counts on the ten fingers were compared by race and sex in 11 samples representing Negroes and Caucasians: five from subsaharan Africa, one American Black, three European, one American White and one from India. The samples of European ancestry showed no consistent sex difference in mean correlation, although female American Whites significantly exceeded males. In three of the six Negro samples and in the Parsis of India males showed significantly higher average correlations than females. The pattern of sex and race differences suggests that the sex chromosomes, particularly the Y chromosome, play a role in dermal ridge development.Keywords
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