KS is a rare disorder discovered by Japanese doctors Norio Niikawa and Yoshikazu Kuroki in 1981. The syndrome received its name due to the resemblance of the characteristic facial features of patients to the make-up used in the traditional Japanese Kabuki play.1 Niikawa and Kuroki independently described the syndrome in a subset of ten Japanese children that were reported to have distinctive fa...

Palmar dermatoglyphics patterns in diabetes mellitus and diabetic with hypertension patients in Gangtok region Anju Bala 1 , Arvind Deswal 2 , Dr. PC Sarmah 3 , Dr. Bidita Khandalwal 4 , Dr. Binod Kumar Tamang 5 , 1. Demonstrator, Department of Anatomy, BPS Govt. Medical College and Hospital, Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat, Haryana, India 2. Demonstrator, Department of Anatomy, SGT medical college, Gur...

Case 1. The propositus was born in 1965, the first child of healthy young Greek parents who were second cousins; the father was 28 and the mother 19 at his birth. The pregnancy was notable for excessive vomiting throughout for which antacids and an unknown antinauseant were taken. The gestation period and delivery were normal. The main clinical features are listed in Table I. The craniosynostos...

Three unrelated Puerto Rican boys, ranging in age from 3 to 4 years, had marked, central, non-progressive hypotonia, chronic constipation, severe psychomotor retardation, seizures or abnormal electroencephalograph or both, abnormal dermatoglyphics, delayed bone age, dysharmonic skeletal maturation, and preponderance and larger size of type 2 muscle fibres. Additional findings included narrow, h...

bilateral finger and palm prints of 500 males and 500 females of the caucasian origin in south iran have been collected and analyzed for both qualitative and quantitative dermatoglyhic features. results show that most of the qualitative features on bilateral and bisexual differences are not significant. however, quantitative features frequently showed significant differences both bilaterally an...

Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) is a common birth defect (birth prevalence ranging from 1/500 to 1/2,000) with a complex etiology. Traits potentially related to CL/P, such as dermatoglyphics, may reflect the genetic and epidemiologic heterogeneity observed in CL/P. Such phenotypic heterogeneity in dermatoglyphic patterns may account for some of the variability in previously report...

The authors review environmental and neurodevelopmental risk factors for schizophrenic disorders, with emphasis on minor physical anomalies, particularly craniofacial anomalies and dermatoglyphic variations. The high prevalence of these anomalies among schizophrenic subjects supports the neurodevelopmental theory of the etiology of schizophrenia, since they suggest either genetically or epigene...

Fingerprints are considered to be one of the most reliable methods of identification. Identification of an individual plays a vital part of any medico-legal investigations. Dermatoglyphics is a branch of science that studies epidermal ridges and ridge patterns. Epidermal ridges are polygenic characteristics that form intrauterine 10-18 weeks and considered fully developed by the sixth month of ...