Article
Parent-offspring resemblance of palmar and plantar dermatoglyphic patterns in Down syndrome.
Cytogenetics and cell genetics - 1 Jan 2000
Langenbeck U, Herzberger G, Kümmerle S
Abstract excerpt
With the aim of investigating the influence of trisomy 21 on the expression of heritable morphological features, we recorded the palmar and plantar dermatoglyphic patterns in 48 children with Down syndrome (DS), in both their parents, and, as a control, in 57 of their siblings. Using the Kendall tau rank correlation test, a considerable parental influence on the frequency of true patterns in the interdigital...
Topics
- Down Syndrome
- Environment
- Female
- Foot Deformities, Congenital
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Hand Deformities, Congenital
- Humans
- Male
- Nuclear Family
- Phenotype
- Sample Size
- Statistics as Topic