ABSTRACT
The population of East Slovakia was studied for the following red cell isoenzymes: acid phosphatase (ACP), phosphoglucomutase (PGM), adenosine deaminase (ADA) and esterase D (ESD). The gene frequencies observed were as follows: ACP1*A = 0.3330, ACP1*B = 0.6143, ACP1*C = 0.0527, PGM1*2 = 0.2673, ADA*2 = 0.0721, ESD*2 = 0.1061. No significant differences were found between East Slovakia gene frequencies in this study and those of Herzog [1992] on inhabitants of Prague and those of Bambúchová [1985] on the Bratislava population.
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Erythrocytes/enzymology , Isoenzymes/genetics , Polymorphism, Genetic , Gene Frequency , Humans , Isoenzymes/blood , Phenotype , SlovakiaABSTRACT
ABO, RH, MN, Kell, P, Lutheran, Lewis, HP, GC, ACP, PGM1, ADA and ESD markers were studied in 122 Valachian Gypsies from Vinodol in West Slovakia. The Valachian Gypsies represent about 5% of the total number of Gypsies (400,000) living in the Czech and Slovak Republic. The results show that their gene pool differs greatly from the one obtained for other Gypsy populations. Since Valachian Gypsies form an endogamous isolate with a high degree of inbreeding, genetic drift and founder effect might have contributed to this difference.
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Blood Group Antigens/genetics , Roma/genetics , Blood Proteins/genetics , Erythrocytes/enzymology , Gene Frequency , Genetic Markers , Humans , Isoenzymes/blood , Isoenzymes/genetics , Phenotype , Romania/ethnology , SlovakiaABSTRACT
In the paper we present the results from the statistic analysis of the effect of two age-group creation criterions (1-st criterion--f.e. the 7 years old--from 6,500 to 7,499 years, 2-nd criterion--f.e. the 7 years old--from 7,000 to 7,999) on value dispersion of somatic characteristics chosen. We analyzed the body weight and body height in the set consists of 846 Gypsy children from 7 to 13 years of age. The dispersions of individual values of parameters followed for both criterions were tested by F-test, average values by un-pair Student's t-test. We found that the both criterions have no effect on value dispersion of evaluated somatic characteristics, except of two cases. Further, average values of testing parameters by criterion No. 1 are somewhat lower in comparison with those by criterion No. 2. Statistically significant differences are however incidental and rare. We suggest that in the case of population studies concerning with body growth and development it is possible to compare the sets with different age-group creation criterions.
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Body Constitution , Adolescent , Age Factors , Body Height , Body Weight , Child , Female , Humans , Male , Statistics as TopicABSTRACT
The authors present the results of evaluation of the skeletal maturation in 579 children aged 1-5 years. Bone maturation was evaluated, based on skeletal age, by the Tanner-Whitehouse II method (Tanner et al., 1975). It was found that girls up to the age of three years had lower and in the more advanced age groups higher values of skeletal age than boys. Boys were retarded as regards skeletal age in relation to chronological age on average by 0.28 years and girls by 0.25 years.
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Age Determination by Skeleton , Child, Preschool , Czechoslovakia , Female , Humans , Infant , MaleABSTRACT
The authors investigated the growth of 1208 gipsy and non-gipsy children living with their families and in childrens homes. They revealed that gipsy children from childrens homes were shorter, lighter and had a smaller chest circumference as compared with gipsy children living with their families. This applied only to younger school children. Somatic development caught up in boys at the age of 11-12 years and in girls approximately 1-2 years sooner. The values of the body mass index in boys declined with age. In girls this decline was found only up to the age of 11 to 12 years. Non-gipsy children from childrens homes were smaller than non-gipsy children according to Slovak standards (Lipková et al.; 5); this was particularly marked in boys. The authors found also that the somatic development of gipsy children from childrens homes oscillates between the somatic development of non-gipsy children according to the Slovak standards and the somatic development of gipsy children from families but only during later school age.
