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J Dent Res 53(4): 781-785, 1974
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The Genetics of Hypodontia

BRIAN K. SUAREZ 1 and M. ANNE SPENCE 1

1 Departments of Anthropology, Psychiatry, and Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA

A large body of family data was analyzed to explain the genetics of hypodontia. Two multiple threshold models that were developed for quasicontinuous traits were used. The data fit the polygenic model much better than they fit the single major gene model.

Submitted on November 23, 1973




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