The bilateral variability of morphometric parameters of dermatoglyphic patterns of fingers of whorl type

In dermatoglyphics of fingers the bilateral variability of pattern types and their quantitative characteristics always had great importance. The purpose of this study was to establish of quantitative laws of bilateral variability of morphometric parameters of dermatoglyphic patterns and their relationship with the linear size of the distal phalanx. The material for study was 151 observations (61 young men and 74 women). In this study was made the morphometric analysis of bilateral variability of finger dermatoglyphic patterns of whorl type. The quantitative measurements of the parameters of fingerprints were produced with the use of anthropometric instruments. The analysis revealed presence in the studied samples of symmetry of the shape parameters, of the direction and of the relative index of the fullness of ridges and presence of the asymmetry in absolute parameters of the fullness of ridge and the size of the central part of a pattern.