Contribution
Inheritance of dermatoglyphic traits in twins: Univariate and bivariate variance decomposition analysis
Karmakar, Bibha; Malkin, Ida; Kobyliansky, Eugene
Anthropologischer Anzeiger Volume 69 No. 2 (2012), p. 221 - 228
publié: Mar 1, 2012
DOI: 10.1127/0003-5548/2011/0134
ArtNo. ESP140006902007, Prix: 29.00 €
Abstract
Dermatoglyphic traits in a sample of twins were analyzed to estimate the resemblance between MZ and DZ twins and to evaluate the mode of inheritance by using the maximum likelihood-based Variance decomposition analysis. The additive genetic variance component was significant in both sexes for four traits - PII, AB_RC, RC_HB, and ATD_L. AB_RC and RC_HB had significant sex differences in means, whereas PII and ATD_L did not. The results of the Bivariate Variance decomposition analysis revealed that PII and RC_HB have a significant correlation in both genetic and residual components. Significant correlation in the additive genetic variance between AB_RC and ATD_L was observed. The same analysis only for the females sub-sample in the three traits RBL, RBR and AB_DIS shows that the additive genetic RBR component was significant and the AB_DIS sibling component was not significant while others cannot be constrained to zero. The additive variance for AB_DIS sibling component was not significant. The three components additive, sibling and residual were significantly correlated between each pair of traits revealed by the Bivariate Variance decomposition analysis.
Mots-clefs
dermatoglyphics • segregation analysis • biometric model • twins