Article
Heritability of dental arch dimensions in humans.
Journal of craniofacial genetics and developmental biology - 1 Jan 2000
Hu J R, Nakasima A, Takahama Y
Abstract excerpt
The purposes of this study were to estimate the heritabilities of several human dental arch dimensions and compare the hereditary differences among kinships and among variables. The sample consisted of 102 Japanese families, each including both parents and one of their offspring, and on average all subjects had relatively well-aligned permanent dentitions. The heritabilities of all variables were estimated from...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Anthropometry
- Dental Arch
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Japan
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pedigree
- Sex Characteristics