“Communalities” in the ossification timing of the growing foot

Abstract

Abstract After investigating communality of ossification timing (mean intercorrelation during growth) for 24 postnatal ossification centers of the foot, it is obvious that some bony nuclei have maximum predictive value and others provide little information about the ossification status of the growing foot. Employing the ten centers of highest communality in both sexes (primarily proximal and metatarsal centers) and excluding the cuboid, lateral cuneiform and low‐ranking centers, it is possible to obtain a new center‐specific average communality in excess of 0.60. While these high‐ranking centers from the basis for a “rational” approach to skeletal assessment, low‐ranking and zero‐communality centers are of major genetic interest.

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