Digital dermatoglyphic heritability differences as evidenced by a female twin study

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 482-489

  Machado, João Felipe ^a   Fernandes, Paula Roquetti ^a,b   Roquetti, Ricardo Wagner ^b,c   Fernandes Filho, José ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Excelencia de Avaliação Física do Rio de Janeiro   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Ciências da Atividade Física   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dermatoglyphics; Heritability; Pattern frequency; Twin method

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; HAND; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THUMB;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CHILD; DERMATOGLYPHICS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958094182     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.13.5.482     Document Type: Article

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