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Morphoscopic traits

Non-metric cranial features assessed on ordinal or nominal scales (anterior nasal spine, malar tubercle, nasal bone shape, post-bregmatic depression, inferior nasal aperture morphology, etc.) that vary in frequency between population groups and supplement metric analysis in ancestry assessment.

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