title: [Pathology of dermatoglyphics in ocular diseases].
abstract: The paper studies dermatoglyphics, viewed from a pathological perspective, on a group of 200 blind subjects or suffering from other grave congenital ocular affections, many of them hereditary, living in the province of Moldavia, from which 400 finger prints and palms have been collected. The observation to be made in that the advanced degree of sight's affection, up to the total loss, is correlated with an ample and strong pathological charge of the digital and palmar dermatoglyphic image of the subjects affected, suggestively expressed at the sample's level by a higher incidence of the distortions with serious medical implications, quite close to that recorded at deaf-mutes, mental handicapped people, in the grave congenital cardio-vascular affections, or at parents with malformed children from Moldavia. From the multitude of dermatoglyphic distortions put into evidence, the author considers that it is only one that might be specific to the serious congenital grave ocular affections, that is a certain disposal of the epidermal ridges, as a dense or very dense network at the level of the Th/I, in a ratio of 80% with women and 38% with men. The very high frequency of this distortion for females subjects might assume that the gene responsible for such a pathological configuration is placed on chromosome X.
authors.affiliation: Centrul de Cercetări Antropologice al Academiei Române-Filiala Iaşi.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tarcă
mesh_terms: D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012729:Sex Chromosome Aberrations; D014960:X Chromosome