Family correlations of metacarpal bones--heritable (h2) and environmental (c2) components of total phenotypic variation.

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Family correlations of metacarpal bones--heritable (h2) and environmental (c2) components of total phenotypic variation.

Collegium antropologicum - 1 Dec 1997

Skarić-Jurić T, Rudan P

Abstract excerpt

The analysis of family data of 18 metacarpal morphometric dimensions (bone length -L, total diaphysis width-T and medullary canal width-M of the second, third and fourth metacarpals of both hands) has been performed on 956 randomly sampled adult examinees (age 18 to 85), inhabitants of the island...

Topics

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis of Variance
Anthropometry
Croatia
Environment
Female
Humans
Linear Models
Male
Metacarpal Bones
Middle Aged
Pedigree
Phenotype

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