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Tongue Pigmentation in Man - Ethnic Studies and Further Pedigrees*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

D.C. Rao ,
M. Satyanarayana ,
P. Veerraju  and
B.B. Rao
D.C. Rao*
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, England
M. Satyanarayana
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, England
P. Veerraju
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, England
B.B. Rao
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, England
*
Population Genetics Laboratory, University of Hawaii, 2411 Dole Street. Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA

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A genetic study has been carried out on tongue pigmentation in man, based on 10 pedigrees and 39 Indian populations. It is concluded in favour of a genetic basis of the trait, which would be inherited as an autosomal recessive.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 221 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1972

Footnotes

*

Based on an article presented at the IV International Congress of Human Genetics (Paris, 6-11 September 1971). Most of the work was carried out when the senior author was a research scholar at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.

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