Digital Dermatoglyphic Heritability Differences as Evidenced by a Female Twin Study

@article{Machado2010DigitalDH,  title={Digital Dermatoglyphic Heritability Differences as Evidenced by a Female Twin Study},  author={Jo{\~a}o Felipe Machado and Paula Roqueti Fernandes and Ricardo Wagner Roquetti and Jose Fernandes Filho},  journal={Twin Research and Human Genetics},  year={2010},  volume={13},  pages={482 - 489},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:31990988}}
The heritability indexes varied in up to 8 times between different fingers and its association to ridge counts and pattern frequency was very variable between hands, evidencing that the use of dermatoglyphic traits from individual fingers as indicators of genetic influences to other human traits should consider this variability.

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