Fingerprints and Palm Prints (Dermatoglyphics) and Palmar-Flexion Creases in Gonadal Dysgenesis, Pseudohypoparathyroidism and Klinefelter's Syndrome

ALTHOUGH the heritability of the patterns on fingers and palms was pointed out by Sir Francis Galton1 in 1892 and soon put to wide use in physical anthropology, little agreement has been reached to date on the mode of inheritance of individual patterns and characteristics.2 3 4 5 6 7 Cummins and Midlo8 have summarized a substantial body of literature on this controversy in their comprehensive monograph, in which they review the comparative anatomy of fingerprints and palm prints and the incidence of individual dermatoglyphic traits in large numbers of people of different races.Palmar-flexion creases, which came to medical attention before fingerprints, have been . . .