The main purpose of this paper is to give the review of the contribution in dermatoglyphics from 1563 through 2005. The importance of it is given as observed in fingers, middle and proximal phalanges, palms, soles, toes, the inheritance of patterns, personal indentification, medico – legal cases, twin diagnosis and correlation with various types of afflictions. Author’s Address: Prof. Dr. H. K....

Palmar dermatoglyphic prints were taken of 261 dyslexics (173 males and 88 females) and compared against those of 707 controls (372 males and 335 females). Dyslexics of both sexes were found to exhibit greater complexity in terms of ridge count and pattern location than controls, particularly on the left hand. Specifically, both male and female dyslexics exhibited higher left a-b counts, wider ...

BACKGROUND Recreational drugs have a significant impact on the lives of drug users, their close families andfriends, as well as their society. Social, psychological, biological, and genetic factors could make a personmore prone to using recreational drugs. Finger and A-B ridges (dermatoglyphics) are formed during the firstand second trimesters of fetal development, under the influence of enviro...

AIM The present study is carried out to evaluate the risk of giving birth to children with Down syndrome in a family with Robertsonian translocation 14q;21q, and to find the dermatoglyphic changes present in carriers of this translocation. METHODS Cytogenetics diagnosis has been made according to Moorhead and Seabright method, while the analysis of prints (dermatoglyphics analysis) was made w...

Introduction: Sir William Hershel – 1856, may be the first to use fingerprints. An English Chief Magistrate in India who used prints on native contracts Dr. Henry Foulds, notices finger marks on prehistoric pottery. Published an article in “Nature” saying fingerprints could be used for identification. Sir Francis Galton, a British anthropologist and a cousin of Charles Darwin, began his observa...

A careful search and exploration of the related literature with regard to the present study was essential to have an insight into the work already done. Although very little research has been done in the area of dermatoglyphic pattern and sports, the scholar with the available literature has gained valuable methodological hints from their procedures and findings, which were of great importance ...