BIONATURE

PALMAR DERMATOGRLYPHICS OF PATTUSALI, AN ISOLATE POPULATION

P. CHENGAL REDDY *

Department of Physical Anthropology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati-517 502

M. ANURADHA *

Department of Physical Anthropology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati-517 502

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

A study of plam prints of 131 males and 161 females of an isolate population,  “Pattusali”  was undertaken.  Differences in ridge counts particularly a-b ridge count transversality of palmer ridges were recorded. These have been compared with Males and Bengali population samples.

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