Article
Path analysis of family resemblance for cranio-facial traits in Andhra Pradesh nuclear families and twins.
Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000
Byard P J, Poosha D V, Satyanarayana M, Rao D C, Russell J M
Abstract excerpt
Path analysis of 12 cranio-facial measurements from a sample of nuclear families and twins from Andhra Pradesh, India is used to test hypotheses about the familial transmission of these traits. For bigonial breadth and ear dimensions, the transmission from parent to child is consistent with simpl...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Anthropometry
- Cephalometry
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Face
- Family
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Skull
- Twins
- Twins, Dizygotic
- Twins, Monozygotic