Dermatoglyphics is the science which deals with study of dermal ridge configuration on digits, palmsand soles. Etymologically this term harmonious blend two words Derma – skin; Glyphe carve. It givesthe impression that something has been carved out skin. The entire human body clothed theskin happens to be largest and most important organ body. However, skin ventralsides hands plantar sides feet...

Dermatoglyphics can be used as a supporting tool in the early detection of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus women. The present study aims to investigate fingerprints women with diabetes mellitus through dermatoglyphic method, and compare them without disease. It was conducted by obtaining all 10 fingers 268 – which is known method –, using Dermatoglyphic Reader®, data processed SPSS (IBM SPSS), version...

50 PRACTICAL DIABETES VOL. 32 NO. 2 COPYRIGHT © 2015 JOHN WILEY & SONS Introduction Dermatoglyphics are ridged patterns on the palmar and plantar surfaces of humans (fingerprints, palm prints and foot prints), which develop approximately between the 13th and 18th weeks of gestation. They manifest complex genetic backgrounds that are currently not fully explained, but polygenic multifactorial in...

A study of the palmar dermatoglyphics pathology, on a group of 54 mongoloid children (33 boys and 21 girls) in order to know the main malformative stigmata specific to Down syndrome have been set up. A large scale of palmar dermatoglyphic anomalies have been found, most of which were on both hands of patients; they were correlated with a high degree of their somatic, physiological, neuropsychic...

The Rengma Nagas are one of the major Mongoloid tribal populations in the North-Eastern state of Nagaland in India. Population variation and sexual dimorphism in respect of finger dermatoglyphic characteristics in 207 adult individuals (104 males and 103 females) are reported in this present context. Frequency distribution of finger pattern types in different digits (both left and right sides c...

autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder originating from early childhood; nevertheless, its diagnosis is in older ages. in addition to heredity, environmental factors are also of great significance in the etiology of the disease. dermatoglyphic patterns, albeit varied, remain stable for a lifetime and yield a large number of patterns upon examination. studies have shown a significant associatio...

Fluctuatingasymmetry provides a measure of an organism's capacity to buffer adverse factors that coulddisturbitsdevelopment.It isestimatedfromthe differencesbetweentheoretically identicalrightand left-sidedstructures. Dermatoglyphicfluctuating asymmetryhas been recently used to investigate developmental disorders. Fingerprintsand palm prints of schizophrenic patients, which had been the subject...

Dermatoglyphic traits have been used to assess population affinities and structure. Here, we describe the digital patterns of four Eskimo populations from Alaska: two Yupik-speaking villages from St. Lawrence Island and two Inupik groups presently residing on mainland Alaska. For a broader evolutionary perspective, these four Eskimo populations are compared to other Inuit groups, to North Ameri...