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Palm Patterns and Pigmentation in a Cherokee Indian Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

David C. Rife
David C. Rife*
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Sciences, University of Florida
*
220 William Bartram Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32601, USA

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Hand prints, estimates of degrees of skin pigmentation and percentages of Cherokee ancestry of 700 Indian pupils attending the Cherokee, North Carolina school were analyzed. The pupils are of mixed Cherokee-White origin. The average proportion of Cherokee ancestry is approximately 60%, the percentages being significantly higher in upper than in lower grades.

The frequencies of palmar patterns are similar to those recorded for other North American tribes. Frequencies of patterns in each of three palmar areas show significant associations with degrees of pigmentation, the highest association occurring between light pigmentation and accessory triradii in distal interdigital areas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 69 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1971

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