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Variation in palmar interdigital ridge-counts among the 20 Dhangar castes of Maharashtra, India.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur - 1 Sept 1996
Karmakar B, Vasu T S, Malhotra K C, Bhanu B V
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Bilateral palmar prints of 2927 males of 20 endogamous Dhangar castes of Maharashtra, India, were studied for the distributions of a-b, b-c and c-d interdigital ridge-counts. The ridge-counts have been utilized for examining the inter-population affinities among the Dhangar castes. The distribution of a-b ridge-counts is symmetrical and normal in Dhangar castes. The distributions of b-c and c-d ridge-counts on...
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