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Heredity and Environment in Finger and Palm Prints Progress report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

P. Parisi ,
G. Alciati  and
M. Di Bacco
P. Parisi*
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics and Twin Research, Rome
G. Alciati
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics and Twin Research, Rome
M. Di Bacco
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics and Twin Research, Rome
*
Istituto di Genetica Medica e Gemellologia Gregorio Mendel. Piazza Galeno 5, 00161 Roma, Italy

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Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in dermatoglyphics: an increasing number of associations between dermatoglyphic alterations and different diseases (especially chromosomal aberrations) are actually being reported, which is of particular concern to human and medical geneticists, as well as to clinicians and pediatricians.

Having been shown to undergo practically complete genetic conditioning, fingerprints are also being applied, by different authors, to the diagnosis of zygosity in twins.

On the other hand, although, on account of available data, a large impact of heredity may be assumed in their determination, dermatoglyphics as a whole still fail to find a clear genetic definition.

Furthermore, with respect to clinical aspects and applications, a clear quantitative definition of dermatoglyphic alterations, and therefore of dermatoglyphic normality and its variability, is still needed.

Last, but not least, a wider and generalized application of dermatoglyphics to the diagnosis of zygosity in twins would require a clear, morphological and genetic, quantitative definition of each trait, as well as the introduction of simple and standardized statistical methods for calculating the probabilities of monozygosity and dizygosity.

Type
Session 10 - Twins in Human Genetics
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 19 , Issue 1-2 , April 1970 , pp. 157 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1970

References

Alciati, G. (1965). Nuova valutazione quantitativa dei dermatoglifi palmari. Acta Genet. Med. Gemellol., 14: 427–430.Google Scholar
Parisi, P., Di Bacco, M. (1968). Fingerprints and the diagnosis of zygosity in twins. Acta Genet. Med. Gemellol., 17: 333–358.Google Scholar