Original scientific paper
Qualitative Analysis of Dermatoglyphics of the Digito-Palmar Complex in Children with Severe Recessive Perceptively Impaired Hearing
Nada Šikić
; Croatian Pension Insurance Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Jasna Miličić
; Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Anđelko Vrca
; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Dubrava, Croatia
Adinda Dulčić
; Polyclinic SUVAG, Zagreb, Croatia
Nađa Runjić
; Polyclinic SUVAG, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The possible hereditary indicated differences in the ascending family tree was investigated in children with severe recessive perceptively impaired hearing, their parents, and healthy controls, using qualitative analysis of dermatoglyphics of the digito-palmar complex. The c2 test was performed and biological distance was investigated by means according to Hiernaux Dg methods, and presented using Ward’s method for the examined groups. The results show that the healthy control group differs from the groups of boys and girls with impaired hearing and also from their fathers mostly in palmar variables. The mothers were biologically more distant from the examined groups of patients, and more similar to the control group of randomly selected healthy female controls. The results indicate polygenic inheritance of sporadic sensoneurial hearing loss.
Keywords
qualitative analysis; dermatoglyphics of the digito-palmar complex; recessive impaired hearing; heredity
Hrčak ID:
40563
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2009.
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