Abstract
Strengthening of global migration processes, often accompanied by an increase in crime and an increase in the number of unidentified individuals, necessitates the expansion of the use of indirect identification methods. In our opinion, involving dermatoglyphic analysis in cases of unidentified persons would help in forensic medical identification of the ethno-territorial membership of an unknown person. The purpose of the work is to identify a taxonomic complex of features of palmar dermatoglyphics at the local level that allow differentiating the regional affiliation of men in Ukraine. The study of dermatoglyphics of 400 virtually healthy men from 5 administrative-territorial regions of Ukraine was conducted using the method of H. Cummins and Ch. Midlo. Statistical processing of the results was carried out in the package “STATISTICA 6.1” using nonparametric methods. The set of signs of palmar dermatoglyphic was revealed, showing a high degree of heterogeneity between men from the following administrative-territorial regions of the country: central and eastern (20.0% of indicators), central and northern (16.9% of indicators), northern and western (16.9% of indicators), western and eastern (15.4% of the indicators) regions of Ukraine. Men from the northern and eastern (6.2% of the indicators), the south and west (6.2% of the indicator) and the southern and eastern (7.7% of the indicators) regions of Ukraine show a significant affinity for the features of palmar dermatoglyphics. In general, the high taxonomic value for intra-population differentiation of the local level have: the localization and saturation of the palm pattern, the size of the palm angles, the presence/absence of additional axial triads, the length of the segment c-t, the Cummins index.
Highlights
Since 1926, when Cummins proposed a new term "dermatoglyphics", two areas of studying papillary skin relief - fingerprinting, as the prerogative of criminology and dermatoglyphics, as the prerogative of anthropogenetics and medicine, began to develop independently
The distinction between dermatoglyphics and fingerprinting is, to some extent, conditional, as evidenced by recent trends in these areas of knowledge that demonstrate the interconnection of scientific approaches in obtaining the necessary results and effectively complement each other [1, 10, 15, 19, 20]
The analysis was subject to 65 indicators of palmar dermatoglyphics, of which indicators were qualitative and indicators related to quantitative characteristics
Summary
Since 1926, when Cummins proposed a new term "dermatoglyphics", two areas of studying papillary skin relief - fingerprinting, as the prerogative of criminology and dermatoglyphics, as the prerogative of anthropogenetics and medicine, began to develop independently. The involvement of molecular genetic analysis, and dermatological analysis is useful in cases of the need for indirect identification of a person through the establishment of blood affinity [5, 7, 9]. Such cases in forensic expert practice, until now, usually arose in cases of controversial parenting, motherhood, substitution, loss, kidnapping of children, the establishment of persons who lost memory [2, 17, 18] Today, more and more people live outside of their country of origin. Labor and political migrants, migrants due to racial discrimination and other reasons today account for 3% of the world's population [21]
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