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Absence of dermal ridge patterns: Genetic heterogeneity
Article first published online: 3 JUN 2005
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320160113
Copyright © 1983 Wiley-Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
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Reed, T. and Schreiner, R. L. (1983), Absence of dermal ridge patterns: Genetic heterogeneity. Am. J. Med. Genet., 16: 81–88. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320160113
Publication History
- Issue published online: 3 JUN 2005
- Article first published online: 3 JUN 2005
- Manuscript Revised: 27 APR 1983
- Manuscript Received: 13 DEC 1982
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Keywords:
- ridge aplasia;
- ridge dissociation;
- dermatoglyphics;
- linkage;
- autosomal dominant trait
Abstract
An apparently new form of complete absence of dermal ridge patterns was transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait through five generations in an Irish-American family. Affected individuals lacked dermatoglyphic patterns, sweat pores, and ability to sweat in the volar areas of the fingertips, palms, and soles. They also had congenital milia and blisters on the fingertips and soles at birth, abnormal nails, single transverse palmar creases, increased heat tolerance, and painful fissures in adult life around the fingernails in cold weather.