A Correlation Study of Patterns of Fingerprints with Blood Groups among the Students of S.S.I.M.S & R.C., Davangere Kamaradgi Pravinkumar N1, Marigoudar Rakesh M1,*, Jatti Vijayakumar B2, Kumar Aswin3 1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SSIMS & RC, Davangere 2Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SSIMS & RC, Davangere 3Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SSIMS & RC, Davangere *Corresponding author: Dr. Rakesh M Marigoudar, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, SSIMS & RC, Davangere. Tel. +919482686920, Email- rakeshmarigoudar2003@gmail.com
Online published on 7 May, 2019. Abstract Identification of both living and dead is something in which medical evidence may play an important role, sometimes constituting the only evidence for establishing the identity of a person. The human identification is a universal process based on scientific principles mainly involving the finger printing. Both fingerprint pattern and blood group are genetically determined. This prospective study was carried out over among 300 medical students of S.S.I.M.S & R.C. Davangere to ascertain the association between fingerprints and blood groups. The study revealed that the predominant fingerprints being the loops in both male and female, next being the whorl and the least one is the arch. O positive is the most common blood group among the study groups, followed by B, A and AB. The loops and whorls showed high association with O blood group followed by B, A and AB. But arch finger print showed high association with B blood group and least with AB blood group. Top Keywords Finger prints, Blood groups, Gender. Top |