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Tongue Pigmentation in Man - Ethnic Studies and Further Pedigrees*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
Summary
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.
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- Research Article
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- Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 221 - 232
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- Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1972
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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.
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