Palm Prints Research Articles

Heritability and correlation of lip print, palm print, fingerprint pattern and blood group in twin population.

Background:Twins are similar in many ways owing to the genetical and environmental factors. However, still, there are certain things that are not similar among them, and this is the challenge for personal identification among the twins.Objectives:Our present study aimed to know and assess the similarities and differences present between the monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal) twins in relation to lip prints, palm prints, fingerprints and blood group and to evaluate their heritability among parents and their offspring.Materials and Methods:The study group comprised 30 twins and their parents – 15 identical and 15 nonidentical twins. The age of twins ranged from 15 years to 40 years. Lip print, palm print, fingerprint and blood group were statistically analyzed.Results:All the data were subjected to statistical analysis. The identical twins showed more percentage of similarities in comparison to the non identical twins. The inheritance pattern was significant for twins in case of their lip prints while palm prints and finger prints showed no such significance in inheritance pattern whereas there was significant association seen in case of blood groups of identical twins and their parents.Conclusion:Lip prints, palm prints, fingerprints and blood groups are the important parameters in forensic science for individual identification. Many studies have been done till now in individual but very few studies done in twin population. To the best of knowledge, ours is the first study of its kind with multiple parameters and its heritability in twins. We have observed that heritability in twins with relation to lip print was statistically significant and all the parameters can be used independently to identify the twins.

The Tinderbox

The Tinderbox Tolu Oloruntoba (bio) We were a conflagration askingto be incarnated into the world.Mother, superstitious, kept usapart, two stones of the sameigneous anger. Everyone saucered tearslike firetrucks before planes crash as ifpreparing, should we combust.Mother had once hiddenall the nooses, knockingall hanging hooks from our ceiling,so they hid the tinder and wood,and cried flame-retardantfor the walls. Your palm prints have returnedas shingles around my left eye.There’s extinguishing foam on the runway.We meet again in our prefabricated peace.Don’t aim the will at meif you will not shoot. [End Page 120] Tolu Oloruntoba Tolu Oloruntoba, a Nigerian poet and physician, has published work in The Reverie Journal, The Kalahari Review, and in translation in the Danish PEN Magazine. Copyright © 2018 Pleiades and Pleiades Press

Dermatoglyphic Analysis in Parents with Cleft Children: A Comparative Study.

Background and Objective:There were studies in the literature which showed the altered dermatoglyphics in the cleft children. But it would be beneficial if probable expression can be proved in prior generations, so that genetic counseling and other preventive measures can be undertaken. The aim of the study is to determine variations in dermatoglyphics of prior generations which would serve as bench markers to predict the occurrence of cleft in off springs.Materials and Methods:A total of 400 parents aged between 25-45 years were selected and divided into two groups - Group A consisted of parents with cleft children and Group B comprised of parents with at least 2 healthy children who met the inclusion criteria. Dermatoglyphic prints were collected by ink method and evaluated for pattern types, total ridge count and palm prints were evaluated for a-b ridge count, atd angle and asymmetry.Results:Significant difference was observed between Group A and B with reference to pattern types; TRC and a-b ridge count and atd angle. Absence of t point was variably noticed in the mothers of affected children.Conclusion:Dermatoglyphics can be used as tool to study the developmental instability of cleft anomalies and provides data to assess the genetic etiology of clefting.

Palmar Dermatoglyphics of Corsicans and Comparison with Those of Sardinians

We report on five dermatoglyphic traits recorded on palm prints in sample of Sardinians and Corsicans. The two populations are very similar but not identical.

Role of Latent Palm Prints Present on Documents in Establishment of Individuality

Role of Latent Palm Prints Present on Documents in Establishment of Individuality

Latent Palm Prints- an Appraisal of Concealed individualize Evidence and Its Aspect in Forensic Investigation

Latent Palm Prints- an Appraisal of Concealed individualize Evidence and Its Aspect in Forensic Investigation

Determination of Sex and Stature from Latent Palm Prints Present on Documents in Egyptian Population Sample

Determination of Sex and Stature from Latent Palm Prints Present on Documents in Egyptian Population Sample

Los dermatoglifos en la población escolar de Navarra

Los autores describen los resultados obtenidos tras el estudio de los dermatoglifos digitales y palmares de 941 escolares normales (469 varones y 472 hembras), pertenecientes a varios colegios de Pamplona (Navarra). Siguiendo la metódica de Cummins y Midlo (1961) y Penrose (1968), se analizan los siguientes parámetros: 
 
 Figuras digitales, "Pattern Intensity", variedad de figuras digitales en un mismo individuo, triradio t, ángulo atd, líneas principales, índice de transversidad, índice de la línea principal, tipos modales de la línea D, tipos modales de la línea C, figuras de las áreas palmares y pliegues de flexión palmar. 
 
 Tras comparar los datos de este trabajo con los obtenidos por otros autores, se concluye que la población estudiada participa de las características generales de los európidos, aunque con ciertas peculiaridades.

Medical Palmistry: An Artistic Analysis and Future beyond Lexical Meaning

Palmistry, the HAST SAMUDRIKA is a part of science, known as SAMUDRIKA SHASTRA. This science forecasts a person’s future by observing his hand geometry and palm prints. Medical Palmistry, the major branch of Palmistry facilitates the diagnosis of diseases on keenly focusing one’s palm. The texture, shape and color of palm and nails are reflecting the health condition of a person. The positions of lines, mounts and some special symbols are exhibiting several medical features of internal organs of human body and thus lead to diagnose various diseases. In this survey, we bring the collective ideas of the research works that attempt to analyze different dimensions of Medical Palmistry. We have examined the works under five different categories of diseases based on the nature and outcome of the works of palm morphology.

Fingertips and sealing wax

Imagine a murder case in which the investigators decide to discount all scientific evidence. Fingerprints, palm prints, hair--all are packed away in crates and consigned to the basement while the detectives get on interrogating suspects and witnesses. It's an implausible scenario in any modern criminal investigation, but in one venerable domain it is often the norm: history. Here, Spinney finds that wax seals contain surprising details of medieval life.

The Implications of Iris-Recognition Technologies: Will our eyes be our keys?

Biometrics are the unique characteristics of the individual that differentiate him or her from any other person. Down and Sands [1] explained that the physiological characteristics refer to the inherited traits that are shaped in the early embryonic stages of the human development. Physical biometrics include, among other things, DNA, fingerprints, hand geometry, vein patterns, face structure, skin luminescence, palm prints, iris patterns, periocular features, retina patterns, ear shape, lip prints, heartbeats, tongue prints, and body odor/scent [2]?[8]. Behavioral characteristics are not inherited but acquired and learned throughout the life of the individual [1]. These include, but also are not limited to, signature, handwriting, vocal prints, keystroke dynamics, and gait?body motion [3]. As a result, the biometrics of a person cannot be stolen, forgotten, or forged. It is what we are [2].

Analysis of Microbiome DNA on Frequently Touched Items and from Palm Prints

Limited by the sensitivity of laboratory techniques, conventional human DNA analysis of touch DNA on frequently used items and prints does not always provide satisfactory results. In this study, microbiome DNA on personal computers, cell phones, and palm prints was analyzed and compared. After sample collection, DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction amplification, library preparation, and sequencing, data were analyzed using the QIIME 1.8.0 software. Weighted unifrac distance between the right palm skin and the right side of a keyboard, the right palm skin and the mouse, and the left side of the keyboard and the left palm skin was 0.258850, 0.265474, and 0.214098, respectively. Even after palm prints were left for 1 week, microbial community structures were still quite similar to those of samples collected from the palm skin on the day they were left (weighted unifrac distance was 0.270885).

Dermatoglyphics and orthodontics

Dermatoglyphics is the study of fingerprints and skin patterns. These appear at the 12 th week of intrauterine life and are completely established by the 24 th week of intrauterine life. It is said that thereafter, these configurations remain constant throughout life. It is during the same embryonic period that finger and palm prints, the lip, alveolus, and palate develop. As a result, any factor causing changes in the lip, alveolus, and palate may also cause different patterns in the appearance of finger and palm prints. Hence, fingerprint patterns and other details of dermal ridges may offer distinct advantages and thus may be used as a screening tool, which is easily accessible, economical, and noninvasive marker to detect early malocclusion.

A robust biometrics multilevel fusion scheme

In this paper, the use of multimodal biometrics is suggested over unimodal biometric system due to the inherent disadvantages of unimodal system. Two or more biometric modalities when combined, offer more reliable identification and verification system. Here, a novel multilevel fusion of palm print and dorsal hand vein is proposed. To fuse the biometric modalities, various levels of fusion are reviewed. In the proposed multilevel fusion, left-and right-hand palm prints of IIT Delhi palmprint database are fused using feature-level fusion to get feature fused vector (FFV). In this, novel feature-level fusion rules are suggested to spatially combine the information of the data samples. These rules are also useful to control the dimension of fused features. After feature-level fusion, features from dorsal hand vein from Bosphorus hand vein database are combined with FFV using score-level fusion. Hence both the feature-level as well as score-level fusion techniques have been used one after the other. The improvement of results verifies the success of our approach. To validate the robustness of proposed multilevel fusion, noise at different level of intensity is artificially added to the test samples. The results suggested the strength of multilevel fusion scheme.

Dermatoglyphics: A Brief Review

ABSTRACT Dermatoglyphics refers to epidermal ridges present on the palm, sole, fingers, and toes. These epidermal ridges are formed in the same intrauterine period when neuronal development takes place in the intrauterine life of a fetus. Thus, dermatoglyphics is correlated with genetic abnormalities and is useful in the diagnosis of congenital malformations and many other medical disorders. Each and every individual has unique fingerprints, even in twins. These fingerprints remain the same lifelong from their development unless they are damaged by dermal injuries. The different regions of our brain are reflected by fingerprints, palm prints and foot patterns present in the 10 fingers, 10 toes, palmar and plantar surfaces respectively and these dermatoglyphics represent the various regions of brain therefore can be used in dermatoglyphics mental intelligence test (DMIT) and now a day is being used globally. How to cite this article Singh A, Gupta R, Zaidi SHH, Singh A. Dermatoglyphics: A Brief Review. Int J Adv Integ Med Sci 2016;1(3):111-115.

The age-specific features of palm dermatoglyphics in the adults subjects

This article was designed to consider the congenital age-specific features of palm dermatoglyphics in the adults subjects (including the type of the papillary patterns, axial tri-radii, the termini of palmar main lines, the rudiments of palmar lines, the dermatoglyphic ridge count between the stable anatomical structures). The objective of the study was to look for the new diagnostic markers of the biological age. It included the identification of the palm prints obtained from 180 Caucasoid men and 120 women at the age varying from 16 to 80 years. The results of the mathematical and statistical analysis provided the basis for drawing up the list of 18 attributes of palm dermatoglyphics significantly (p<0.05) differing in the frequency of occurrence between the representatives of individual age groups. The methods are proposed allowing to use these findings for the expert evaluation of the age of unknown subjects.

The specific age-related palmometric features of an adult subject

In connection with the variability and as a consequence of the poor diagnostic value of the external (planimetric) parameters of the palm traces, the new system of absolute and relative dimensional attributes based on the stable palmoglyphic reference points is considered. The purpose of the present study was the search for the new biological markers of biological age. The material for the study consisted of the palm prints obtained from 180 men and 120 women of the Caucasoid stock at the age from 16 to 80 years. The use of the descriptive statistics methods yielded the basic statistical characteristics of the traits being investigated and revealed the limits of their variability in the groups of men and women belonging to the age groups from 16 to 29 and from 30 to 80 years. The method of threshold values made it possible to identify 13 attributes the excess of which allows, with the probability of no less than 0.95, to perform diagnostics of the age group of an unknown subject.

Dermatoglyphic Study in Bipolar Disorder

Background: The word dermatoglyphics means writing on the skin. This includes ridge patterns on skin of palms, digits and soles. Finger patterns are definitely constitutional in nature. Both finger and palm prints give clue to various pathological conditions in human being. Material and methods: The present dermatoglyphic study was conducted on fifty males and fifty females in the age group of 18-60 years, diagnosed as bipolar disorder cases, who attended the psychiatric outdoor or were admitted in the wards of psychiatric department, Jawahar Lal Nehru Hospital, Ajmer, Rajasthan. Results: The Total Finger Ridge Count (TFRC) and a-b ridge counts were found to be decreased in the bipolar diseased group. The mean ‘atd’ angle on both the hands considered together is found to be greater in the bipolar cases compared to the normal i.e. 90.22o in males and 92.46o in females bipolar cases compared to the control with mean angle 80.46o and 82.46o respectively in males and females (in males p= 0.0001, in females p= 0.0002). The frequency of whorls were increased in patients compared to the controls (p

Correlation of dental caries and dermatoglyphics in pediatric cases

Background: Dental caries is a multifactorial disease, and its etiology has been advocated to various environmental and genetic factors. Dermatoglyphics is the study of dermal ridges on the palmar and plantar surfaces of hands and feet. It is genetic in nature and is unique to each individual. Enamel as well as finger buds are ectodermal in origin and develop during the same time of intrauterine life; therefore, factors affecting dental caries may cause peculiarities in dermal ridge patterns. Aim: To find a correlation between dermatoglyphic pattern and dental caries in pediatric cases. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on 200 children (100 caries-active and 100 caries-free) between the age range of 6–13 years. The decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) score was recorded for caries-active children having a score range of 3–6 and under each score there were 25 cases. Midlo and Cummins method (1943) of recording palm prints was used using Indiana Ink (stamp pad), roller and printing papers. The prints were inspected with the help of magnifying lens and whorls and loops in each hand were recorded. Statistical Analysis: Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software 14.00, and Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis of collected data. Results: The number of whorls was found to be more in caries-active children with increased number of whorls in children with a higher DMFT whereas the number of loops was more in caries-free children. There was a statistically significant difference between the groups (P < 0.05). The number of whorls and loops was found to be more on the right hand as compared to the left hand. Conclusion: The results of the study indicate that there is a definite correlation between the number of whorls and loops and the presence of dental caries in children. Hence, dermatoglyphics can be used as a screening method to provide adequate preventive treatment to children showing a higher caries risk as detected by the hand ridge patterns.

Biometrics' new identity--measuring more physical and biological traits: Research into the characteristics that are unique to an individual is addressing the need to correctly identify people in a variety of medical, social and security contexts.

There is no need to remember complex combinations of random numbers and characters. From now on, you are the password: your fingerprint, face, iris, gait or odour—any of your potentially unique attributes—can theoretically be used to identify you. This is the idea behind biometrics, which was once confined to the realm of spy movies and high‐security facilities, but is now increasingly common in everyday security checks at borders, for secure payments and logging in to mobile devices. Beyond security, though, biometrics technology is also driving and enabling other applications that include forensic science, data sharing over networks and reducing identification errors in hospitals. > Biometrics is essentially ready for mass application, as the success of the Indian Aadhaar programme demonstrates. While fingerprints and retina patterns are the most well‐known biometric identifiers, they are not the only characteristics that can be used for biometric identification. Physical traits such as the shape of the face, hand or ear, the vasculature in the finger or DNA—so‐called hard biometrics—as well as behavioural characteristics such as gait, signature, voice and typing patterns can all be used to identify individuals (Fig 1). Another large and rapidly expanding category—which includes characteristics such as skin or eye colour, height, weight and tattoos—is known as “soft biometrics” and provides less distinctive, less categorical information, but has the advantage that such traits can be measured from a distance without cooperation from the subject. Even body odour is being actively explored as a practicable biometric identifier (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140204073823.htm). Figure 1. Examples of biometric traits. (A) Fingerprints, palm prints, hand vasculature, hand shape and signature. (B) Face, DNA, sclera (on the eyeball), ear shape and typing patterns (keystroke dynamics). (C) Teeth (forensic odontology), gait, voice or speech, iris and retina. Some of these traits—fingerprints, palm prints, face, voice, teeth, ear shape and DNA—are also used in forensics. Reproduced with permission …