Clinical Implications in the Dermatoglyphic Picture of an Endogamous Population in Moldavia

Objectives: The paper constitutes an ample study on digital dermatoglyphics, from a pathological perspective. Material and methods: Study population was represented by 200 subjects (100 men and 100 women) of all ages, coming from an endogamous rural locality the village of Butea, county of Iaşi and there were used 400 dermatoglyphic files. It was noted that the high level of endogamy within the community as illustrated by an index which, oscillated along the 20 century between 72% and 86% had an outcome in the digital dermatoglyphic picture, in terms of pathological pattern. It assumes the presence of some significant anomalies with multiple and severe clinical implications which at the level of the group attain percent values quite close, equal or even higher than those recorded in communities with sekelary infantile encephalopathies (IEP), epilepsy, autism, ocular diseases (OD) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Therefore, the presence of above mentioned diseases is justified in the pathological pattern of the study population. Results and discussion: The digital dermatoglyphics anomalies, both in men and women, especially in the formers ones and on both hands, mainly on the left ones referred to: the increased frequency on fingers for whorls (as accompanied by a more reduced one for loops), for the radiality of the digital structures, for the racketoid type loops and for the bilateral and individual monomorphism, all peculiarities through which the population under study was close to the dermatoglyphics patient of the collectivities with various congenital and hereditary maladies, and sensibly different from that of the Romanian population, and Moldavian one, particularly. Conclusions: many of the carriers of grave malformative stigmats are apparently healthy somato-physically therefore the malformative stigmats of digital dermatoglyphic can indicate the risk of the disease and of the possible of the population’s health condition.