Distance Analysis of C- and D-lines Terminationsin Iranian Populations

摘要

Six Iranian populations have been analyzed for C- and D-lines terminations, uti-lizing bilateral prints of 720 individuals. Bimanual differences were frequently non-signifi-cant, whereas sex differences were frequently significant. Interpopulational variation showedsignificant heterogeneity among the populations studied. Distance analysis and constructeddendrograms, while considering other thirteen Iranian populations, provided separationbetween the populations for both C- and D-lines terminations, but the dendrograms were notin agreement with the ethnohistoric records of the populations studied. Therefore, modaltypes of C- and D-lines terminations are not good measures of population distance and therelationships of populations one to another.