Middle phalangeal hair distribution of Serbian and Albanian high school pupils

Milkica, Nešić, Elizabeta, Dadić-Nikoloska, Dobrivoje, Đordević, Ljudmila, Efremovska, Milan, Ćirić, Vladimir

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Srbije

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1820-7936

https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%268477&page=0&so...

2010-2021/11/01/13:18:13

The aim of this paper was to explore hairiness of the middle phalanges on both hands of second, third, forth and fifth fingers of Serbian and Albanian high school pupils. The total sample comprised 425 Serbian pupils (275 girls and 150 boys) in the town of Niš, aged 15!19 years and 299 pupils (160 girls and 139 boys), Albanians from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, aged 15 - 17 years. There were significant differences of hairiness on the middle phalanges of the second, third, fourth and fifth fingers between Serbian and Albanian populations. The results showed that Serbian population had more frequent hairiness of the third finger of the left hand and combined hairiness of the third and fourth fingers of both left and right hand. Albanian population had more frequent hairiness of the fourth and fifth finger of the right hand and combined hairiness of all middle fingers of the right hand. Also, there were gender differences of the phenotypes of the right and left hands. Males had more frequent combined hairiness of the third, fourth and fifth middle phalanges of the right and left hands. Comparing our results with other findings, a similarity with other European populations was found. .