The aim of this study was to assess environmental and hereditary influence on development of pituitary tumors using dermatoglyphic traits. The study was performed on 126 patients of both genders with pituitary tumors (60 non-functional and 66 functional pituitary tumor patients) in comparison to the control group of 400 phenotypically healthy individuals. Statistical analysis of quantitative an...

Gastrointestinal cancers are malignant diseases with high mortality rate. Early diagnosis of patients could improve the results of treatment. Many studies used dermatoglyphics as a biomarker to predict the incidence of genetic diseases and cancers. This study assessed the association between gastrointestinal cancers and particular fingerprint patterns, which could be useful in early diagnosis o...

Aim. The study is aimed to analyze the pathology of palmary dermatoglyphics of a group of population from Moldova (North-East part of Romania). Materials and methods. The study was performed on a group of 190 patients (60 men and 130 women), affected by diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM), aged between 40 and 82. The installation of the disease has occurred between the age of 35 and 80 years of age...

Dermatoglyphics is an integral part of the biological anthropology related to studies population polymorphism and geographical variability Homo sapiens. V.V. Bunak presented dermatoglyphic methods in chapter XI "Anthropometry" too compact, text needs some technical explanations, which was purpose this work. Materials methods. We have combined comments with a summary main concepts terms accepted...

Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of phenotypic characteristics persons prone suicidal actions. Analysis number suicides, factors and conditions their occurrence difficult subjective, as it associated with insufficient information about causes suicides.
 In this regard, search for markers that allow identifying states, in order carry out preventive measures him prevent cases su...