TY - JOUR
T1 - Inheritance of digital arches in humans
T2 - Is the major gene fully penetrant?
AU - Chakraborty, Ranajit
AU - Majumder, Partha P.
AU - Mathew, Susan
AU - Satyanarayana, M.
PY - 1982/8
Y1 - 1982/8
N2 - From the fingertip pattern analysis of 125 families with 376 children from Velanadu Brahmin and 100 families with 286 children from Telaganya Brahmin caste sects of Andhra Pradesh, India, the occurrence of an arch on at least one of the ten finger tips is shown to be aggregated in families. The mode of aggregation is in conformity with a major dominant gene with 0.28 chance of penetrance. This is to some extent contradictory to the result published from the analysis of a single Habbanite Jewish pedigree. Some implications of this discordant result are also discussed.
AB - From the fingertip pattern analysis of 125 families with 376 children from Velanadu Brahmin and 100 families with 286 children from Telaganya Brahmin caste sects of Andhra Pradesh, India, the occurrence of an arch on at least one of the ten finger tips is shown to be aggregated in families. The mode of aggregation is in conformity with a major dominant gene with 0.28 chance of penetrance. This is to some extent contradictory to the result published from the analysis of a single Habbanite Jewish pedigree. Some implications of this discordant result are also discussed.
KW - Finger dermatoglyphics
KW - Inheritance of digital arches
KW - Segregation analysis
KW - South Indian Brahmins
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0020454325&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/ajpa.1330580409
DO - 10.1002/ajpa.1330580409
M3 - Article
C2 - 7124935
AN - SCOPUS:0020454325
SN - 0002-9483
VL - 58
SP - 413
EP - 418
JO - American Journal of Physical Anthropology
JF - American Journal of Physical Anthropology
IS - 4
ER -