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Family studies on transverse fronto-parietal index

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In the present paper an attempt has been made to study the Transverse Fronto-parietal Index on 200 biological families with 577 children, taking the age and the sex of the individuals into consideration. The present study on 200 Punjabi families hints at the dominating nature of the mesometopic type (70.4–74.9) as evidenced from the index value.

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Sharma, P.D. Family studies on transverse fronto-parietal index. Genetica 39, 508–518 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02324483

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