Abstract

Fingerprint (dermatoglyphic) evidence is undoubtedly the most reliable and acceptable evidence till date in the court of law. Due to the immense potential of fingerprint 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. Materials and methods: This are a Prospective, Observational and case-control study conducted in the Department of Anatomy and Medicine, Index Medical College over a period of 2 Years. All healthy individuals 18-65 years of age both Gender. Each subject was asked to wash his / her hands thoroughly with soap and water and dry them using a towel. Then they were asked to press their fingertip on stamp pad and then to A4 paper to transfer the fingerprint impression by rolling the fingers over fingerprint blocks prepared with other information like name, age, sex and blood group. The participants were asked to be careful not to double roll the prints in order to avoid smudging of the print. Results: Of the 800 samples, 487 were males and 313 females, which correspond to 60.87% of male and the rest female. In this study, the maximum number of subjects were in the age group of 20-22 years which were 42% (n =336) of total followed by age group 23–25 years having 31.62% (n = 253) in this group and 26.3% were 17-19 years. In our study, the most of subjects had „O‟ Blood Group 36.62% (n =293) and least were AB Blood Group 13.2% (n = 106). The most of subjects had Rh Positive 85.75% (n =686) and least were Negative 14.2% (n = 114). Conclusion: The existing study observed that there is correlation between the morphology of fingerprint pattern and the type of blood group. The human finger print distributions of various types also revealed few peculiarities in relation to the different blood groups

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