Digits sans Dermatoglyphs

Aug 05, 2011

In a paper appearing online in advance in the American Journal of Human Genetics this week, researchers in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Basel, Switzerland, report their use of familial sequencing on a pedigree with autosomal-dominant adermatoglyphia — marked by an absence of fingerprints.

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