Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
A genetic study has been carried out on tongue pigmentation in man, based on 10 pedigrees and 39 Indian populations. It is concluded in favour of a genetic basis of the trait, which would be inherited as an autosomal recessive.
Based on an article presented at the IV International Congress of Human Genetics (Paris, 6-11 September 1971). Most of the work was carried out when the senior author was a research scholar at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.