Quantitative Dermatoglyphic asymmetry
A comparative study between Schizophrenic patients and control groups of West Bengal, India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3778641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bibha Karmakar (Indian Statistical Institute), Mahua Sengupta |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-242 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologischer Anzeiger (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5548 • E-ISSN: 2363-7099 |
| Publisher | S ch we iz er ba rt (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1127/0003-5548/2012/0135 |
| PMID | 22606916 |
| OpenAlex | W2328473513 |
| Language | EN |
Quantitative Fluctuating (FA) and Directional asymmetry (DA) of dermatoglyphics on digito-palmar complex were analyzed in a group of 111 patients (males: 61, females: 50) with schizophrenia (SZ), and compared to an ethnically matched phenotypically healthy control (males: 60, females: 60) through MANOVA, ANOVA and canonical Discriminant analyses. With few exceptions, asymmetries are higher among patients, and this is more prominent in FA than DA. Statistically significant differences were observed between patient and control groups, especially in males. In both sexes, FA of combined dermatoglyphic traits (e.g. total finger ridge count, total palmar pattern ridge count) are found to be a strong discriminator between the two groups with a correct classification of over 83% probability.
Analysis of variance · Biology · Dermatoglyphics · Multivariate analysis of variance · Ridge · Statistics · West bengal · Demography · Dermatoglyphics and Human Traits · Genetics · Internal Medicine · Mathematics · Medical and Biological Sciences · Medicine · Morphological variations and asymmetry
| Highly cited | No |
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