title: Sources of information for discriminating MZ and DZ twins by dermatoglyphic patterns.
abstract: It is shown that the within twin-pair difference is the most important source of information in determination of twin zygosity using dermatoglyphic data. Inclusion of a measure of among-pair variability provides added discrimination beyond that found with the within-pair difference alone.
mesh_terms: D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011336:Probability; D014427:Twins; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic