Incidence, density and direction of hair on the dorsum of phalanges of the hands in Malays

Middle phalangeal hair distribution in Serbian high school students

“…The presence of hair in Mongoloid peoples is rarer, which is further supported by the data on the incidence of MPH of 44.25% in men and markedly lower incidence of 31.39% in women from Tibet (Tiwari i Bhasin, 1969). Malayans, for instance, in whom MPH is present in 48% in men and 33% of women, are ethni- cally similar to other Asian populations (Dharap et a., 1995). The tribes of Malaita (Hindley i Damon, 1973) have similar frequency of hair (at the age of 20 it is significantly higher in men -58.3%, compared to women -34.4%) as the peoples of the Caucasus (Setty, 1964), slightly higher than the people of Japan (Matsunaga, 1956) and significantly higher than that in Negroid populations and American Indians.…”

“…Studies conducted in the U.S.A. (Chopra, 1953) and data from Japan (Matsunaga, 1956) that parents without this characteristic had eight children with MPH suggested that there were exceptions to this rule, indicating that the hypothesis of heredity was not completely satisfactory and that further studies were necessary. 1939), Tibetan (Tiwari and Bhasin, 1969), Japanese (Matsunaga, 1956), Malaysian (Dharap et al, 1995); as well as the African population in Nigeria (Singh, 1982;Mbajiorgu et al, 1996), Ethiopian (Bat-Miriam, 1962) and American (Setty, 1966). Analyses of the characteristic in various populations have demonstrated significant differences (Sethuraman et al, 1982).…”