Background: Dermatoglyphics refers to the study of epidermal ridge patterns of fingers, palms and soles of hand and feet. Fingerprint develops completely at 24th week of embryonic life. Once formed, they are permanent and unalterable throughout the life, not affected by environmental factors. As dermatoglyphic patterns are assumed to be associated with genetic factors, the idea of using it as s...

Keywords: chromosomal dermatoglyphics genetics infertility Polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS Original Article Aims: To study and co-relate chromosomal abnormalities and dermatoglyphics in infertile female patients with PCOS. Method: 16 cases of PCOS and 16 normal females as controls were selected. Chromosomal study was done using whole blood culture method and GTG Banding in genetic laboratory. ...

Over the past 150 years, Dermatoglyphics has been a useful tool in understanding basic questions in biology, medicine, genetics and evolution, in addition to being the best and most widely used method for personal identification .Dermatoglyphic analysis is now beginning to prove itself as an extremely useful tool for preliminary investigations into conditions with a suspected genetic basis. In ...

INTRODUCTION Dermatoglyphics is an extremely useful tool as a preliminary investigation method for diagnosing suspected genetic disorders. Caries being a multifactorial disease with the influence of genetic pattern, early identification of caries risk children with dermatoglyphics can help in using effective and efficient caries preventive measures. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The study was undertake...

Introduction: The study of dermatoglyphics patterns on the digital and palmar region and its association with various diseases, especially having genetic causes, has been reported by various workers in the past. Recently, the number of patients with diabetes and hypertension (HTN) have strikingly increased in the most countries. The prevalence of HTN in patients with Type 2 diabetes is known to...

Dermatoglyphics, coined by Cummins and Midlo in 1926, is a branch of genetics dealing with the skin ridge system. They have been studied for fortune telling by palmists and as a defi nitive and unalterable tool for identifi cation by forensic experts. From cradle to grave, until the body decomposes fi ngerprints remain unchanged. In many respects, it has been used as an adjunct to other discipl...

Dermatoglyphic is the study of the epidermal ridges and the pattern formed by them. It may be pointed out that genetic factors have a large share in determining the variations in dermatoglyphics. It is however, suggested by evidence that bipolar mood disorder factors are determined more by genetic factors than by the environmental factors. The experiment has been undertaken to look for the effe...