Independence of brachymesophalangia-5 from brachymesophalangia-5 with cone mid-5
β Scribed by Stanley M. Garn; Andrew K. Poznanski; Jerrold M. Nagy; Mary B. McCann
- Book ID
- 102704609
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 511 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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β¦ Synopsis
Analysis of hand radiographs of juvenile siblings of juvenile propositi indicates that brachymesophalangia-5 alone (without cones) is separately inherited without apparent sex bias while brachymesophalangia-5 with the cone-epiphysis of mid-5 and the cone-epiphysis of mid-5 alone are both apparently inherited as a complex and with a marked excess of females over males.
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## Abstract Subjects with brachymesophalangiaβ5 (the short middle segment trait of the fifth digit) are systematically reduced in the length of the second metacarpal and in stature, by approximately 0.5 standard deviations, in contrast with unaffected individuals or unaffected siblings of affected