Some genetic traits in Solomon Island populations. III. Relative toe length

✍ Scribed by Cathleen C. Papadopoulos; Albert Damon

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 287 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330390207

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Among 1,605 Solomon Islanders from four tribes, there was no sex difference in relative length of the first and second toes. In three of the tribes, longer first toes were slightly more frequent in persons over the age of 45. The percentages of longer first toes in the groups as a whole were 60.5% for Baegu, 66.4% for Nasioi, and 72.1% for Kwaio. These frequencies, resembling those reported for white Americans, Europeans, and single small samples of New Caledonians and Vietnamese, were much below those for Africans. The fourth tribe, the Lau, had only 37.1% with a longer first toe, the lowest percentage reproted so far around the world. No simple mode of single‐gene inheritance was apparent, and polygenic inheritance is proposed.