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. 2014 Jan 8;22(11):1268–1271. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.289

Table 2. Differences in facial measurements between Dutch and UK.

  Dutch female UK female P Dutch male UK male P
Face length (mm) 113.7 111.9 <0.05a 122.8 122.4 0.68
Nasal ridge length (mm) 46.4 47.4 <0.05a 49.6 50.5 0.10
Relative nasal ridge length 0.41 0.42 <0.0001b 0.40 0.41 <0.05a
Upper face proportion 0.46 0.47 <0.001b 0.45 0.46 0.06
Nares anteversion 0.82 0.83 <0.05a 0.83 0.84 0.09
Nose width (mm) 33.4 32.7 <0.05a 36.3 36.9 0.15
Outer canthal separation (mm) 88.3 86.2 <0.0005b 92.3 90.6 <0.005b
Palpebral fissure width (mm) 28.3 27.3 <0.001b 29.5 28.8 <0.005b
PBL relative to face length (mm) 0.25 0.24 0.13 0.24 0.24 <0.05a

Abbreviation: PBL, palpebral fissure width. Anthropometric calculations and t-tests were performed in Excel (Microsoft Office 2010).

a

Significant (P-value <0.05).

b

Highly significant (P-value <0.005, including <0.001 and <0.0001).