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It tends to affect the entire skeleton, and in a family where one child is markedly brachydactylous, that child is generally shorter than the others.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

Moreover, it will be found, if a number of brachydactylous persons are examined, that no two of them are affected to exactly the same degree.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

Normal and brachydactylous hands placed together for comparison.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall