The Prevalence of Fingerprint Patterns in Different ABO Blood Groups
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https://doi.org/10.30732/ijbbb.20160102001Keywords:
Blood groups, Fingerprints, Forensic, Gender, Henry’s classifications, IdentificationAbstract
Identity is a set of physical characteristics that define an individual’s; recently there has been an increased interest in biometric technologies. Fingerprint evidence is undoubtedly the most reliable and acceptable evidence till date in the court of law. Due to the immense potential of fingerprints as an effective method of identification an attempt has been made in the present work to analyze their correlation with gender and blood group of an individual. Present study is an attempt to analyze and correlate fingerprint patterns with gender and blood group of an individual. In this study 200 individual among which 100 males and 100 females having different blood groups with different age groups. All the 10 fingerprint patterns were divided into Arches, Composites, Loops and Whorls.Results show that Loops are most commonly found fingerprint patterns and Arches and Composites are least common. Loops dominated in all the blood groups of both Rh positive and Rh negative individuals.The only association between gender and finger print patterns in this study is that Arches, Composites and Loops were found in higher frequency in Females compared to Males and Whorls were found to be high in males compared to females. We can conclude that there is an association between distribution of fingerprint patterns and gender and thus prediction of gender of a person is possible based on his fingerprint pattern.
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