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GENETICS OF DERMAL RIDGES: PARENT‐CHILD CORRELATIONS FOR TOTAL FINGER RIDGE‐COUNT
Author(s) -
HOLT By SARAH B.
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
annals of human genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1469-1809
pISSN - 0003-4800
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1955.tb01282.x
Subject(s) - daughter , correlation , ridge , demography , biology , evolutionary biology , mathematics , paleontology , sociology , geometry
Summary Parent‐child correlations have been estimated for total ridge‐count using new data from 100 families with 104 sons and 91 daughters. Parent‐child, mother‐child and father‐child correlations are not significantly different from 0·5. The interparental correlation is 0·02 ± 0·10. The new data have been combined with the earlier data from 49 families. The parent‐child correlation estimated from this total sample is 0·50, the mother‐child correlation 0·49 ± 0·04 and the father‐child 0·50 ± 0·04. Mother‐son, mother‐daughter, father‐son and father‐daughter correlations are not significantly different from 0·5.