title: Bilateral asymmetry of human skeletal non-metric traits.
abstract: The use of non-metric skeletal traits to compute population distance statistics assumes strong genetic control of trait expression. An investigation of bilateral asymmetry frequencies of human cranial and postcranial non-metric traits shows that asymmetry is common. This suggests that environmental stress, as well as the genotype, is important in controlling trait frequencies.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D044466:Asian People; D044383:Black People; D002508:Cephalometry; D004534:Egypt; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D008297:Male; D044468:Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; D044465:White People; D015022:Yugoslavia