[Y chromosome heterochromatin and human morphophysiological variability]

Yi Chuan Xue Bao. 1991;18(5):424-30.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Eighty morphophysiological traits were studied in 55 males with a morphologically identical heterochromatin subtotal deletion of Y chromosome and in 55 males with a normal Y chromosome. No significant differences were found between these groups in mean values of most traits except some hematologic parameters. Using the pattern recognition algorithm a combination of 20 traits which differentiated the groups under comparison with the recognition errors 4.6% was extracted. The recognition system consisted the informative traits including electrocardiographic parameters (25% of the traits), some anthropological and hematologic traits and subjects' age. The results suggest that the Y chromosome heterochromatin appears to have a modifying effect on the phenotypic relationship between morphophysiological traits during human ontogenesis.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Child
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heterochromatin*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Phenotype
  • Y Chromosome*

Substances

  • Heterochromatin