Patient with primary open angle glaucoma (PAOG), which is known to have a genetic predisposition, and their immediate relatives unaffected with PAOG, may have some changes in dermatoglyphic traits of the digito-palmar complex, since the trabecular meshwork develops at the same time and with the same hereditary base like dermatoglyphs, which have high genetic transmission. The objective of this ...

The present study was carried out in order to evaluate the effect of chromosomal and monogenic or polygenic morbidity, as well as anomalies or conditions with still unknown genetic components, based on dermatoglyphic traits and indices of diversity and asymmetry. The main objectives of the present study is to find dermatoglyphic traits and ‚uctuating asymmetry indices which could be “marker tra...

Dermatoglyphic asymmetry of fingertip ridge counts is more frequent in schizophrenia patients than normal controls, and may reflect disruptions in fetal development during Weeks 14-22 when fingerprints develop. However, there are no data in humans linking specific adverse events at specific times to dermatoglyphic asymmetries. Our objective was to determine whether prenatal exposure to a natura...

coronary artery disease (cad) is the most important cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. the knowledge of major risk factos can be useful in prevention of cad. there is no known major risk factof in many patients with myocardial infarction (mi). the dermatoglyphic pattern in patients with myocardial infarction is an interesting matter and little information is available about this rel...

Dermatoglyphic prints were collected from 800 inhabitants of Dukagjin valley in Kosovo. The sample consisted of two ethnically different sub-populations who refer themselves as Albanians (N = 400) and Turks (N = 400). Qualitative analysis of prints concerned the frequency of the patterns on fingers (arch, ulnar and radial loop, whorl, accidental whorl) and on palms (Thenar and I, II, III, and I...

Dermatoglyphic studies Carried out in Schizophrenia have been evaluated and critically examined. Methodological errors existing in the previous studies have been pointed out and some guidelines for methodological refinements suggested and a dermatoglyphic corsensus index for diagnosis has been evolved. The heterogeneous nature of schizophrenia, being a group of syndromes, has been unanimously a...

With the demonstration of a strong genetic component in ridge counts by Sarah Holt (eg, Holt, 1961), which came as the culmination of a large number of early exploratory papers on the inheritance of dermatoglyphic traits (summarized in Cummins and Midlo, 1961), the relationship of finger and palm prints with genetic disease was an obvious topic for exploration. During the last decade a number o...

Schizophrenia is hypothesized to be the result of an interaction between specific genetic factors and nonspecific insults during embryonic development. Dermatoglyphic abnormalities appear to mark these putative insults--providing information about the temporal sequence of aberrant developmental events as well as the organism's vulnerability to their adverse effects. In the present study, dermat...

The configurations of epidermal ridges that comprise dermatoglyphic traits are, in many respects, a history of the developmental period during which the ridges form. In 1892 Sir Francis Galton [l] demonstrated that epidermal ridge configurations did not change throughout postnatal life. The fact that ridge configurations were not affected by environment or by age has been an important framework...