title: A morphometric study of the Thingbu-pa and population comparison with neighbouring Monpa tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
abstract: In the present study an attempt has been made to examine the morphometric characteristics of the adult males of the Thinbu-pa and the nature and extent of morphometric variation among four neighbouring Monpa groups of Arunachal Pradesh (India), namely the Panchen-pa, Dirang Monpa, Tawang Monpa and Kalaktang Monpa. For the sake of investigation altogether 14 anthropometric measurements (11 pertaining to head and face and 3 on the body as a whole) have been taken and 5 indices have been calculated. To obtain the distance values the methods of Penrose (1947, 1954) and El-Najjar (1978) have been followed. It is observed that the Thingbu-pa maintain far distance with the four neighbouring Monpa groups as well as the Panchen-pa also maintain far distance with the other four groups, while the Dirang Monpa, Tawang Monpa and Kalaktang Monpa maintain close distance among each other.
authors.affiliation: adak_dk@rediff.com
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Adak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D003241:Consanguinity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged