Patterns of ethnic, linguistic, and geographic heterogeneity of palmar interdigital ridge counts in the Indian subcontinent

Human Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-228

  Reddy, B Mohan ^a   Demarchi, Dario A ^b   Bharati, S ^a   Kumar, Vikrant ^a   Crawford, Michael H ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dermatoglyphics; India; Palmar interdigital ridge counts; Principal components analysis; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PALMAR DERMATOGLYPHICS; PALMAR INTERDIGITAL RIDGE COUNT; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 3543018514     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2004.0037     Document Type: Article

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