Correlation of Human Height With Head Length in Indian Individuals

Shankar, Girish Shiv; Shankar, Veena Vidya; Shetty, Shailaja; Radhika, K

doi:10.16965/ijar.2017.457

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“…The present study with correlation coefficient (r = 0.73) was dissimilar with the study conducted on individuals aged 18–25 years in Ramaiah Medical College, Bengaluru, India 17 in which a weak positive correlation was observed between height and head length (r=0.27). Our study was not in accordance with the study carried out on Bangladeshi Garo adult females 18 with correlation coefficient (r = -0.02) in which head length did not reach statistically significant level with their height.…”

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Estimation of Body Height from Head Length among Dental Students of a Dental College

Manandhar

Shrestha

2018

J Nepal Med Assoc

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Introduction: Body height is an important measure of physical identity. Height exhibits a dimensional relationship with various parts of the body. This relationship helps to calculate height from dismembered and mutilated body parts in forensic examinations. As the cranial dimensions are more reliable and precise means of predicting the stature, this study was undertaken to find the relation between head length and height and to derive a regression formula for the estimation of height from head length among dental students. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 150 dental students of age group 18-21 years in the Department of Anatomy, Kantipur Dental College Teaching Hospital and Research Center, Basundhara, Kathmandu. The head length was measured with the help of spreading caliper. Height was measured with the help of a standard height measuring instrument. The head length and the height of the students were measured in centimeters. Data obtained were analyzed to find the correlation between head length and height and to derive a regression equation for the estimation of height. Results: A significant positive correlation was observed between head length and height (r=0.734, P<0.001). The regression equation for body height and head length including both sexes and all age groups of dental students was found to be y=12.9+8.45x where x is head length and y is body height. Conclusions: It was observed in the present study that there was a significant positive correlation between height and head length in all the age groups indicating that head length is a reliable indicator in estimation of height.

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Estimation of Body Height from Head Length among Dental Students of a Dental College

Manandhar

Shrestha

2018

J Nepal Med Assoc

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“…A study conducted in 2013 showed that the mean and standard deviation values of the parameters were as follows: cranial height 130.68 ± 7.77 mm The maximum cranial width and the maximum cranial length results obtained in our study are similar to the literature data but Khan et al and Shankar et al showed that the values were found to be higher than our results. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] These results are shown that Table 3. Upper face height values in the literature were found to be low compared to the results in our study.…”

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Anthropometric Evaluation of Cranial Indexes.

Senol¹,

Şafak²,

Yücel³

2019

IJCMR

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Introduction: Craniometric measurements are used in anatomy, anthropometry and surgical fields, especially in maxillofacial and plastic surgery. The aim of this study was to investigate the cranial index values anthropometrically and to contribute to the literature data. Material and methods: For this purpose, 30 cranium bones with unknown age and gender belonging to Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine and University of Cukurova were used. Results: In this study, maximum cranial width, maximum cranial length, bizygomatic width, cranial height, upper face height and minimum frontal width were measured. The mean and standard deviation values of the measured values are;

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“…Much less is known about the extent of the association between CF and BC, although the existing data leaves room for little doubt that such an association exists. For example, the correlation between head circumference and various body trunk measurements, as well as body height and head length are well known and repeatedly reported (Roosenboom et al, 2016;Shankar et al, 2017). In this regard, it is important to mention that not only does CF morphology correlate with body size, but somatic growth was found to be a significant determinant of CF morphology (Larson et al, 2018).…”

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Is craniofacial morphology and body composition related by common genes: Comparative analysis of two ethnically diverse populations

Ghosh

Kasher

Malkina

et al. 2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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Objectives: The overarching hypothesis of the present paper is that ethnically and/or genetically diverse human populations may exhibit similarity in correlations between various aspects of human phenotypes due to the morphological integration process during the ontogenetic stages. To test this we investigated whether an association between craniofacial (CF) features and body composition (BC) variations is present in humans and the extent to which such possible associations are comparable in different populations. Furthermore, the paper examines the contribution of common genetic (additive) and shared familial environmental factors in assessing the correlation between CF and BC characteristics in humans.Materials and Methods: Two pedigree-based samples were collected from two distinct populations, including India (Santhal) and Europe (Chuvash). Canonical correlation analysis was used to compare the association between CF and BC characteristics in the two studied samples. The contribution of genetic and familial environmental factors on the correlation between CF and BC features was analyzed through variance decomposition analysis by implementing the Mendelian Analysis package (MAN).Results: Our study suggests that CF morphology is significantly (p < 0.001) associated with BC variation in both samples. CF characteristics and BC phenotypes revealed a consistent trend in both samples where condensed and broad CF morphology was significantly associated with increased fat accumulation, with slight variations between the Santhal and Chuvash samples. Despite the variations observed between the samples, the heritability estimates were impressively equivalent for traits like total facial height (55.6% Santhal vs.56.1% Chuvash ) and nasal index (42.8% Santhal vs. 43.3% Chuvash ).Discussion: The genetic contribution of CF morphology appeared to be extensive and the contribution of common genetic and shared family environmental correlations between CF and BC measures were suggestively substantial. Accordingly, these correlations were consistently observed across ethnically diverse populations, despite drastic morphological differences between the samples under comparison.

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Correlation of Human Height With Head Length in Indian Individuals

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Estimation of Body Height from Head Length among Dental Students of a Dental College

Estimation of Body Height from Head Length among Dental Students of a Dental College

Anthropometric Evaluation of Cranial Indexes.

Is craniofacial morphology and body composition related by common genes: Comparative analysis of two ethnically diverse populations

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