Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 60. (Budapest 1968)
Dezső, Gy.: The frequency of eye and hair colours in some Hungarian populations
Material and method The examined individuals comprised school-children aged 12—18 years, born in the town investigated, their parents and at least one grandparent coming from the same locality or its immediate neighbourhood. It is well-known that pigmentation changes with age, and also that these changes are significant only in the first three years of life. STEGGERDA (1941) showed slight differences during puberty in Dutch children living in the United States; before puberty the boys are lighter coloured than the girls, while around 14 years of age the boys become darker. In his paper cited above, FARKAS reported that the eye and hair colours of children aged 3—18 in Com. Csongrád do not change significantly from the seventh year onwards. He presumed therefore that the data derived from the examination of school-children may, with some limitations, be applicable for an evaluation of also the adult population. Eye-colours have been determined by the SCHULTZ colour-table, hair-colours by the FISCHER— SALLER table. With regard to the eye, the entire pigmentation of the iris, and concerning the hair, the hue of the deeper stratum at the nape, have been considered. For each individual, I have determined the corresponding grade of scale, but in the course of evaluation I used the following grouping : Eye: 1—lb poor in pigment, 3—6 weakly pigmented, 7—11 medium pigmented, 12—16 rich in pigment. Hair: A whitish blond, B—E light blond, F—L blond, M—O dark blond, P—T brown, U—Y blackish brown, I—VI red. The per cent frequencies of these groups for every sample have been calculated, as well as a total mean by summarizing all samples. On the basis of the combined material, correlations in both sexes were also calculated with respect to the common occurrence of the two features. Results Eye-colour: medium pigmentation shows the greatest per cent value in all samples. This is followed by the weakly pigmented — poor in pigment — rich in pigment groups, except for the towns Mezőtúr and Szabadszállás where those rich Table I. Frequency of eye-colours in the localities examined Locality' Budapest Vasv ír S&ibadszállás Mezőtúr Szik.s zo Nagye csed Nationwide Grade S % î % cf % 9% cf % 9 % cf % ¥ % cf % 9 % o % 9 % CÎ % 9 % , ' la - 2b 12. 4 14. 7 12. 8 17. 4 7.4 14. 3 14. 4 11.9 19. 1 y. o 19. 7 20. 6 14. 3 14. 8 ' 3 - G 24. 3 26. 2 25. 5 23. 8 25. 2 28. 5 28. 0 20. 6 27. 8 21.6 24. 4 26. 5 25. 5 24. 5 7 - 11 51. 7 46. 9 53. 2 50. 0 56. 1 45. 4 37. 9 42. 1 35. 7 47. 3 44. 9 44. 7 46. 6 46. 3 12 - 16 11. 5 12. 1 8. 5 8. 7 11. 2 11. 7 19. 7 25. 4 17. 4 22.2 11.0 8. 2 13. 5 14. 3 Total 234 149 47 172 107 119 132 126 115 167 127 170 761 901 Table II. Frequ ency of hair-colou rs in the localities examined A 0. 0 0. 0 0. 0 1. 2 0. 0 0.0 0. 0 0. 8 0. 0 0. 0 0. 0 0. 0 0. 0 0. 3 B - E 0.8 0.0 0. 0 1. 2 0.0 0. 0 0. 8 0. 8 0. 0 1.2 0.8 0. 0 0. 5 0. 6 F - L 6. 0 2. 7 2. 1 4. 1 5.6 10. 9 7.6 4. 8 7. 8 4. 8 7. 9 7.7 6. 6 5. 7 M - O 19.2 10. 7 25. 5 12. 2 15.9 7. 6 3. 8 4. 8 11. 3 8. 4 17. 3 14. 9 14. 8 10. 1 P - T 46. 5 42.3 34. 0 38. 4 53.3 43. 7 33. 3 33. 3 37. 4 29. 9 39.4 38. 1 41.9 37. 2 U - Y 26. 1 44. 3 38. 3 41. 3 22. 4 33. 6 53.0 52. 4 42. 6 53. 3 33. 1 39. 1 34. 7 44. 2 I - VI. 1. 3 0. 0 0. 0 • 1. 7 2. 8 4.2 1.5 3. 2 0. 9 3. 2 1.6 1.2 1. 4 2. 0 Total 234 149 47 172 107 119 132 126 115 167 127 j 170 76) 901
