目的:已经在多种生物中广泛研究了牙冠形态发生的模式级联模型,以阐明围绕犬齿后形态的进化史。当前的研究是第一个使用大型现代人类样本来检查下落叶和永久性磨牙的牙冠配置是否与模型得出的期望相符的研究。这项研究有两个主要目标:1)确定同色异谱和抗异谱对的大小是否显着不同,附件性状表达,和相对插入间距,和2)评估早期形成的尖点之间的相对距离是否解释了观察到的副尖点表达的变化。
方法:牙齿尺寸,插入距离,从代表哈佛所罗门群岛项目参与者的下颌牙模的3D扫描中收集形态特征表达数据。配对测试用于比较牙齿大小,附件性状表达,以及双齿形元形物和永久性抗药之间的相对插入距离。实施比例几率逻辑回归以研究较大的副尖点表达的几率如何随早期发展的尖点之间的距离而变化。
结果:比较配对磨牙,牙齿大小和牙尖5表达存在显著差异。几个相对的插入距离是尖点6表达的重要预测因子,然而,尖点5和尖点7的结果与预期模式不匹配。这些发现支持先前的定量遗传结果,并表明相邻牙冠结构的发育代表了细胞领土和资源的零和分配。因此,这项研究有助于更好地了解人类落叶和恒磨牙冠变异的基础。
OBJECTIVE: The patterning cascade model of crown
morphogenesis has been studied extensively in a variety of organisms to elucidate the evolutionary history surrounding postcanine tooth form. The current research is the first to use a large modern human sample to examine whether the crown configuration of lower deciduous and permanent molars aligns with expectations derived from the model. This study has two main goals: 1) to determine if metameric and antimeric pairs significantly differ in size, accessory trait expression, and relative intercusp spacing, and 2) assess whether the relative distance among early-forming cusps accounts for observed variation in accessory cusp expression.
METHODS: Tooth size, intercusp distance, and morphological trait expression data were collected from 3D scans of mandibular dental casts representing participants of the Harvard Solomon Islands Project. Paired tests were utilized to compare tooth size, accessory trait expression, and relative intercusp distance between diphyodont metameres and permanent antimeres. Proportional odds logistic regression was implemented to investigate how the odds of greater accessory cusp expression vary as a function of the distance between early-developing cusps.
RESULTS: Comparing paired molars, significant differences were identified for tooth size and cusp 5 expression. Several relative intercusp distances emerged as important predictors of cusp 6 expression, however, results for cusp 5 and cusp 7 did not match expected patterns. These findings support previous quantitative genetic results and suggest the development of neighboring crown structures represents a zero-sum partitioning of cellular territory and resources. As such, this study contributes to a better understanding of the foundations of deciduous and permanent molar crown variation in humans.