title: [Morphologic and genetic studies of the nose].
abstract: The aim of this paper is to find metrical and morphological shape variants of the nose, which are highly determined by heredity. For this, 67 monozygotic and 59 dizygotic twins were measured and the morphological details of the nasal region were recorded and documented by taking photographs in the three standard views of the nose. The study of shape variants in our population was based on 160 control persons, who were not related. Out of this group 61 control pairs were put together by random selection with regard to sex and age. From every examined person data of 9 metrical and 43 well distinguishable morphological variants of the nose were gathered. They had been worked out of numerous observable forms. It could be shown that two measures (breadth of the nose, breadth of the tip of the nose) and eight other morphological features of the nose are of good heredity.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Anthropologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hannemann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005819:Genetic Markers; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009666:Nose / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D010641:Phenotype; D014427:Twins / Q000235:genetics*; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic / Q000235:genetics*; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers
vernacular_title: Morphologische und genetische Untersuchungen an der Nase.