Cerebral palsy is one of the main causes of severe disability in children. Sixty children (30 boys and 30 girls) were included in the study. Quantitative digito-palmar dermatoglyphic traits were analyzed. Prints of digito-palmar dermatoglyphs obtained from the children's parents (60 mothers and 60 fathers) and from 400 phenotypically healthy adults from the Zagreb ware used as control groups. A...

OBJECTIVE To examine dermatoglyphic features to clarify implicated genetic predisposition in the etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS The study was conducted between January and December 2013 in the Departments of Anatomy, and Neurology, Cumhuriyet University School of Medicine, Sivas, Turkey. The dermatoglyphic data of 61 patients, and a control group consisting of 62 healthy adults ...

Dermatoglyphics, ridge constellations on the hands and feet, are permanently formed by the second trimester of pregnancy. Consequently, they are considered "fossilized" evidence of a specific prenatal period. A high frequency of dermatoglyphic anomalies, or a high rate of dermatoglyphic asymmetry (discordance), is an indication of developmental instability (prenatal disturbances) prior to 24-we...

Dermatoglyphic features, qualitative as well as quantitative, of finger and palm prints of 50 male I. C. D.-9 diagnosed catatonic schizophrenics and as many ethnically matched normal controls of the same sex were examined. Patients were found to differ from the control group in qualitative as well as quantitative features quite similar to the findings of the past three investigators. These diff...

background: dermatoglyphics are the dermal ridge configurations on the digits, palms and soles. dermatoglyphic polymorphism results from the co-operation of genetic and environmental factors. the dermatoglyphic analysis is a valuable completion of initial diagnosis of some syndromes genetically determined. our objective was to assess dermatoglyphics study results against standard chromosomal an...

The factors situated at the bases of the genesis and development of PTSD are divided in: biological, psychological and social factors. Primary factor is a stressful event of extremely dangerous and threatening nature. The sort and the intensity of the stressful event too play an important role, followed by the personality structure, the relation with the environment and the genetic constitution...

74 type II diabetes mellitus patients (37 males and 37 females), were compared with 74 controls, nondiabetics. Significant dermatoglyphic changes were noted between diabetics and nondiabetics. Whorls were the predominant digital pattern noted in both hands of male as well as female diabetics. This was seconded by presence of ulnar loops. There was no significant difference in the atd angle betw...