Dental size variation in admixed Latin Americans: Effects of age, sex and genomic ancestry.

ABSTRACT: Dental size variation in modern humans has been assessed from regional to worldwide scales, especially under microevolutionary and forensic contexts. Despite this, populations of mixed continental ancestry such as contemporary Latin Americans remain unexplored. In the present study we investigated a large Latin American sample from Colombia (N = 804) and obtained buccolingual and mesiodistal diameters and three indices for maxillary and mandibular teeth (except third molars). We evaluated the correlation between 28 dental measurements (and three indices) with age, sex and genomic ancestry (estimated using genome-wide SNP data). In addition, we explored correlation patterns between dental measurements and the biological affinities, based on these measurements, between two Latin American sam

SUBMITTER: Yang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10159210 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature