title: Dermatoglyphic variation and weight and length at birth.
abstract: Relationships between dermatoglyphic variables, including finger ridge counts and finger, palmar, and plantar pattern intensities, and weight and length at birth, were tested in a sample of 184 boys and 202 girls from Warsaw schools. No convincing evidence for such relationships has been obtained from the results of correlations and one-way analysis of variance, although there are indications that some palmar traits may be related to length at birth in females. The data agree with the common belief that birth weight and birth length are mainly determined by influences operating in later stages of pregnancy, that is, after the 20th gestational week.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: D Z
authors.initials: DZ
authors.lastname: Loesch
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Przybyla
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D001827:Body Height; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male