Author: Mohr, Jan
Title: A Study of Linkage in Man
Description: Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1954. half-cloth. 25x17cm, 119 pages. University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation.. Textual charts & tables. Rubberstamps to half-title, title and several pages. Good. ¶ Contents: Our knowledge of linkage in man; The significance of constructing human linkage maps; The present study; The concept of linkage;Methods for study of linkage in man; Markers; Statistical methods for detection and estimation of linkage; History; Methods used in the present paper; The method of Finney; The method of Penrose; Factors which may imitate linkage; Earlier studies of linkage in man; Normal families; Families with diseases; Own material; Markers and other normal traits; Method of selection of the material; Examination of the material; Observed and expected mode of inheritance of markers; Observed and expected mode of inheritance of taste sensitivity to phenylthiourea; Hereditary influence on finger prints; Hereditary influence on eye color; Hereditary influence on tongue curling; Linkage relations between markers; Linkage relations of finger prints with markers; Hereditary diseases; Hereditary cataract in a Köge kindred; Introduction; Material; Diagnosis of cataract; Family relations; Linkage relations of cataract with markers; Myotonic dystrophy;..; Osteogenesis imperfecta;.; Aniridia;..; Thomsens disease;..; Huntingtons chorea;..; Discussion; Information in the present material; Markers; Graded characters; Diseases; Indications of linkage; The Lewis- Lutheran relation; Strenght of the indication of linkage; Type of linkage; Significance of the Lewis-Lutheran relation; Future studies; Summary;..

Keywords: Medical Dissertations, Human Genetics, Inheritance, Heredity, Biology, Medical, Medicine, Genetic Linkage,