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Structural Analysis of The Ridge Count data Of Australian Europeans Using Multivariate Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

S. Singh ,
M. A. Aitkin  and
N. H. Westwood
S. Singh*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Department, Kanematsu Memorial Institute, Sydney Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
M. A. Aitkin
Affiliation:
School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
N. H. Westwood
Affiliation:
Division of Animal Production, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
*
Medical Research Department, Kanematsu Memorial Institute, Sydney Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Abstract

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Multivariate analyses are used to study the structural patterns of ridge counts of fingers. There is a significant difference between the ridge counts of two hands, chiefly due to the first and fourth fingers. There is asymmetry in the covariance matrix of the ridge counts. The correlations between fingers are significant and the decrease in correlation with increasing distance between fingers is not significant.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1977 , pp. 167 - 171
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1977

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