Sexual dimorphism in digital dermatoglyphic traits among Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka

Wijerathne, Buddhika TB; Rathnayake, Geetha K; Adikari, Shamila C; Amarasinghe, Subashini; Abhayarathna, Prasanna L; Jayasena, Ajith S

doi:10.1186/1880-6805-32-27

Journal of Physiological Anthropology

Table 5 A comparison of the dermatoglyphic patterns of Sinhalese with several other populations

From: Sexual dimorphism in digital dermatoglyphic traits among Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka

Population	Sex	N	Frequency of dermatoglyphic patterns (%)											Authors
			Loop			Whorl					Arch
			UL	RL	Total	PW	DLW	CPL	AW	Total	PA	TA	Total
Sinhalese (Sri Lanka)	M	217	56.73	1.79	58.52	25.8	6.13	3.5	1.1	36.54	2.72	2.21	4.93	Present study
	F	217	58.7	2.21	60.92	23.69	6.08	3.36	1.38	34.52	2.21	2.35	4.56
RarhiBrahmins (Bengal)	M	100			53.8					43.9			2.3	Chattopadhyay et al. [6]
	F	38			64.47					31.32			4.21
Tunisians (Tunisia)	M	233			61.72					31.31			7.08	Namouchi [16]
	F	110			63.54					27.74			8.63
DanguriaTharu of Uttar Pradesh (India)	M	379	52.92	1.76	54.69	32.71	5.67	2.98	0.05	41.42	3	0.87	3.87	Srivastava [10]
	F	300	53.76	1.56	55.33	33.16	4.5	2.8	0.03	40.5	3.86	0.3	4.16
Black Americans (USA)	M	100	61	2.1	63.1					33.6			3.3	Qazi et al. [17]
	F	100	58	1.7	59.7					31.3			8.2
South Indians (India)	M	250	49.32	2.08	51.4	30.64	6.24	3.72	0.48	41.08	3.6	2.08	5.68	Nithin et al. [9]
	F	250	36.8	1.36	38.16	26.84	5.48	2.68	0.36	35.36	2.36	2.16	4.52
Nigerians (Nigeria)	M	400	52.76	1.38	54.14					30.05			16	Boroffice [18]
	F	400	51.43	0.88	52.31					25.3			22.4
Indigenous black Zimbabweans (Zimbabwe)	M	135	72.22^a	5.55^a	77.77^a	-	-	-	-	12.23^a	-	-	10^a	Igbigbi [14]
	F	135	78.33^a	6.67^a	85^a	-	-	-	-	5^a	-	-	10^a
RengmaNagas of Nagaland (India)	M	104	43.96	3.36	46.96	-	-	-	-	52.19	-	-	0.49	Banik et al. [8]
	F	103	40.58	1.94	42.52	-	-	-	-	55.69	-	-	1.79
Dhimals of North Bengal(Bengal)	M	101	41.37	0.78	42.16	32.55	5.88	16.67	0	55.10	1.96	0.78	2.75	Biswas [7]
	F	101	46.08	2.16	48.24	27.84	6.08	16.27	0	50.19	0	1.57	1.57
Tibetans (Tibet)	M	156	36.83	2.16	38.99	48.98	8.35	2.84	0.06	60.24	0.51	0.26	0.76	Tiwari et al. [11]
	F	150	47.13	2	49.13	39.6	6.6	2.4	0.07	48.67	2.07	0.13	2.2
Muzziena Bedouin (South Sinai )	M	170	46.3	2.9	49.2					49.1			1.7	Karmakar et al. [15]
	F	48	45.8	2.4	48.2					50.3			1.6
Samoan New Zealanders (New Zealand )	M	100	42.8	0.8	43.6	35.3	18.1	1.9	0.3	55.6	0.6	0.2	0.8	Cho [12]
	F	93	33.2	0.5	33.7	49.4	14.6	1.6	0	65.6	0.5	0.2	0.7
Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory (Australia)	M	114			42.6					56.7				Cho [13]
	F	90			47					51.2

AW = Accidental whorl, CPL = Central pocket loop, DLW = Double loop whorl, PA = Plain arch, PW = Plain whorl, RL = Radial loop, TA = Tented arch, UL = Ulnar loop. ^aMean percentage.

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