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Dermatoglyphic Analysis of Different Types of Bronchopulmonary Carcinoma

In this investigation of etiology of carcinoma the discriminant analysis and Mahalonobis D2 biological distance was carried out on the sample of a group of 30l patients with four different histological types of bronchopulmonary carcinoma and compared with 400 phenotypically healthy persons. Prints of dermatoglyphs were taken for l8 quantitative dermatoglyphic traits on fingers and palms. Discriminant analysis has shown palmar variables as primary discriminating variables between the patients suffering from different types of carcinoma and phenotypicalty healthy controls, and between the group of patients suffering from carcinoma. Discriminant classification is very high between patients suffer-ing from carcinoma and phenotypically healthy controls in mates and in females. Mahalanobis D2 biological distances show dif-ferences between the group of cancers and phenotypically healthy controls. This findings clearly show the genetical predisposition for the disease, but genetic interpretations do not exclude environmen-tat inlluences during the period of early intrauterine life in pa-tients suffering from carcinoma.

bronchopulmonary carcinoma; dermatoglyphics; quantitative traits; genetic predisposition; population genetics; anthropology

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