title: Multivariate studies on the genetics of dermal ridges.
abstract: In order to investigate the inheritance of the series of ten ridgecounts, factor analysis was used to reduce the dimensionability to two. These two factors are inherited more or less independently and the heritability of the first is 0.97.
mesh_terms: D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005826:Genetics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male