Why are rare traits unilaterally expressed?: Trait frequency and unilateral expression for cranial nonmetric traits in humans

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-25

  Hallgrímsson, Benedikt ^a   Donnabháin, Barra Ó ^b   Blom, Deborah E ^c   Lozada, Maria C ^d   Willmore, Katherine T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysmorphology; Fluctuating asymmetry; Nonmetric traits; Threshold traits; Variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE; CLEFT PALATE; DATA BASE; EUROPE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKELETON; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERATOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CEPHALOMETRY; EUROPE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 24044454371     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20187     Document Type: Article

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