Document Type
Article
Abstract
Digital and palmar dermatoglyphic patterns are analyzed and compared for 335 subjects from a Peruvian, central highland Quechua-speaking population and .343 subjects from an eastern Peruvian lowland Quechua-speaking population, all of whose ages range from 5 to 19 years. These two populations are probably descendants of the former Chanca tribes of the Peruvian Andes, and display no significant genetic differences in terms of ABO and Rh subgroups. Sex and hand-specific digital patterns, pattern intensity indices, maximum atd angles, C and D main lines, Cummins main line index, hypothenar patterns, thenar/I patterns and interdigital area II, III and IV" patterns are compared. Lowland males and females have greater frequencies of whorls and fewer loops and arches in their first and fifth digits than their highland counterparts. Lowland males and females also have fewer proximal and ulnar endings and more radial endings in their C line terminations than the highland males and females. The right interdigital area III of lowland females shows a greater frequency of overall patterns (vestiges, loops and whorls) than that of the highland females.
Recommended Citation
Klayman, Jane E.; Smith, Maria Ostendorf; and Frisancho, A Roberto
(1977)
"Digital and Palmar Dermatoglyphic Patterns in Two Peruvian Quechua Populations,"
Human Biology:
Vol. 49:
Iss.
3, Article 11.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol49/iss3/11
