Occurrence of Metopism in Dry Crania of Adult Brazilians

Table 2

Incidence of metopism in different ethnic groups, as reported by various authors.

Study	Ethnic group	Occurrence (%)	Year
Jit and Shah [20]	Indian (Punjab)	5	1948
Das et al. [21]	Indian (Uttar Pradesh)	3.31	1973
Agarwal et al. [15]	Indian (Kanpur)	2.66	1979
Bryce [22]	European; Mongolian; Black African; Australian; Scottish	8.70; 5.10; 1.20; 1.00; 9.50	1917
Keith [23]	Subject to race	3–8	1948
WOO [24]	Mongoloid; Negroid	10.0; 2.00	1949
Frazer and Breathnach [17]	European; East Asian; African	7–10; 4-5; 1.00	1965
Romanes [25]	European	Up to 8.00	1972
Berry [26]	Various ethnic groups	7.40	1975
Ajmani et al. [13]	Nigerian	3-4	1983
Chandrasekaran and Shastri [27]	Indian (southern India)	5.00	2012
Present study	Brazilian (Maceió)	4.48	2013