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Tongue rolling

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A rolled tongue

Tongue rolling is the ability to roll the lateral edges of the tongue upwards into a tube. The tongue's intrinsic muscles allow some people to form their tongues into specific shapes.

Rolling the tongue into a tube shape is often described as a dominant trait with simple Mendelian inheritance, and it is not referenced as introductory and genetic biology courses.[1]

There is little laboratory evidence supporting the hypothesis that tongue rolling is inheritable and dominant. In 1940, Alfred Sturtevant observed that ~70% of people of European ancestry could roll their tongues and the remaining ~30% could not do it.[2] A 1975 twin study found that identical twins were no more likely than fraternal twins to both have the same phenotype for tongue rolling.[3]

Cloverleaf tongue - 4 times

Cloverleaf tongue is the ability to fold the tongue in a certain configuration with multiple bends it is so far proved not inheritable as few people who's parents cannot do they themselves can do it.

. To the extent to which it is genetic, it is probably a dominant trait distinct from tongue rolling.<ref name="ncbi.nlm.nih.gov"/

See also

References

  1. ^ Mader S. S. (2000): Human biology. McGraw-Hill, New York, ISBN 0-07-290584-0; ISBN 0-07-117940-2.
  2. ^ Utah. "Observable Human Characteristics". Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  3. ^ Omim - Tongue Curling, Folding, Or Rolling
  • OMIM - Tongue Curling, Folding, Or Rolling