FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION AND ASSOCIATION OF SOME MORPHOLOGIC AND PHYSIOLOGIC TRAITS IN PATIENTS WITH LUNG DISEASES IN KOSOVA
In this investigation 3,050 patients with lung diseases and the same number of healthy individuals from all over Kosova were examined for frequency distribution and phenotypic association of selected morphological traits as well as blood groups of the ABO and Rh systems. There was a statistically significant increase of individuals with cleft chin (p<0.001), left type of hand clasping (p<0.01) and Rh− blood group within the patients with lung diseases (p<0.05) compared to the control. The combination of morphologic traits among patients carrying blood group A showed increased presence of recesive phenotypes regarding ear lobe type (attached: p<0.01) cleft chin (absence: p<0.001) and tongue rolling (nonrollers: p<0.001) compared to the carriers of the same blood group from healthy individuals. Patients with blood group B had a significantly higher frequency of nonrollers (p<0.01), whereas patients with AB phenotype had a slight increase in the frequency of individuals with cleft chin (p<0.05). Patients carriers of blood group O showed increased presence of recesive phenotypes of all five morphological traits (p<0.001) compared to the control sample of individuals.