Cranial Suture Biology of the Aleutian Island Inhabitants

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 676-682

  Cray, James ^a,b   Mooney, Mark P ^c   Siegel, Michael I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial shape; Cranial sutures; Guttman scales; Heritability; Suture fusion

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNOSTOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMANS; INUITS; PHENOTYPE;

CRANIA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 79952721203     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21345     Document Type: Article

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