GENETIC-DETERMINATION OF OSSIFICATION SEQUENCE POLYMORPHISM

被引:6
作者
HERTZOG, KP
FALKNER, F
GARN, SM
机构
[1] Fels Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, Yellow Springs, Ohio
[2] Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
[3] Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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10.1002/ajpa.1330300117
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Q98 [人类学];
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030303 ;
摘要
Serial hand‐wrist x‐rays of 81 pairs of twins were examined to investigate the genetics of ossification sequence polymorphism. Discordance in ossification sequence was 3.5 times more common between like‐sex dizygotic twins than between monozygotic twins, with the difference being significant at the 0.01 level of confidence. These findings support the contention that the major part of variation in ossification sequence is genetically determined. Copyright © 1969 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
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