Anthropometric multivariate structure and dermatoglyphic peculiarities in biochemically and morphologically different heterozygous groups

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ID8317597
AutoresE Kobyliansky (0000-0001-9691-3813, Tel Aviv University), Gregory Livshits (0000-0003-3766-7493, Tel Aviv University)
Año1986
Volumen70
Número2
Páginas251-263
Fecha de publicación1986-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajpa.1330700211
PMID3740250
OpenAlexW2141454419
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas33

Multivariate analysis of the relationship between degree of heterozygosity at four blood group loci and the morphological variability in a human population was carried out. Additionally, the possibility that dermatoglyphic patterns correlate with biochemical and anthropometric variables was also investigated. A strong and significant increase in the frequency of morphologically multimodal individuals was observed, which paralleled the heterozygosity level. Discriminant analysis, by quantitative characters, of the closest pair of biochemically different samples yielded a satisfactory discrimination. Multiple correlations of each variable with all the others (18 traits), the communality of characters, the index of integration, and the Mahalanobis distances of the factor scores for each individual (all extracted from principal component analysis) were all indicative of the different multivariate structures of homo‐and heterozygous individuals and thus supported the hypothesis that heterozygotes tend to cluster near the center of the joint multivariate distribution. The dermatoglyphic patterns showed a certain relationship with the morphological makeup of individuals. Correlations between biochemical heterozygosity at blood group loci and patterns of digital dermatoglyphics were rather irregular

Allele · Anthropometry · Biology · Dermatoglyphics · Evolutionary biology · Loss of heterozygosity · Mahalanobis distance · Multivariate analysis · Multivariate statistics · Principal component analysis · Statistics · Dermatoglyphics and Human Traits · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Genetics · Internal Medicine · Mathematics · Medicine