Article
Quantitative and qualitative finger dermatoglyphics in the Basque Valley of Urola, Spain.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur - 1 Mar 1990
Arrieta M I, Martinez B, Simon A, Salazar L, Criado B, Lostao C M
Abstract excerpt
Digital dermatoglyphics of an indigenous sample of 87 males and 101 females from the Urola Valley in the Spanish Basque Country are compared with those from the nine other Basque valleys previously analyzed. In both sexes of the Urola Valley, there is a very high frequency of radial loops; the mean found in this valley extends the range of variation for South European-Mediterranean populations, and it is in the...
Topics
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Dermatoglyphics
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype
- Sex Factors