Dermatoglyphics in Adults With Congenital Rubella

Purvis‐Smith, Stuart; Menser, Margaret A.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(68)90422-4

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“…It is described as the proximal transverse palmar crease which, instead of terminating approximately over the axis of the 4th digit as is usual, extends to the ulnar margin of the palm. Purvis-Smith and Menser (1968) believe this extended proximal transverse palmar crease to be atypical in a normal population. However, Dubowitz (1969) found Sydney lines in 5 of 14 newborn (and presumably normal) infants.…”

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Dermatoglyphs in leukaemia.

Verbov¹

1970

Journal of Medical Genetics

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“…The Sydney line is another palmar crease which (11-250o) (11°h/) (9.40// ) was described only recently by Purvis-Smith and Menser (1968). It is described as the proximal transverse palmar crease which, instead of terminating approximately over the axis of the 4th digit as is usual, extends to the ulnar margin of the palm.…”

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Dermatoglyphs in leukaemia.

Verbov¹

1970

Journal of Medical Genetics

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“…2 In clinical medicine, chromosomal anomalies such as the trisomies 13–15 (Patau's syndrome), 18 (Edwards' syndrome), 21 (Down's syndrome), and the sex chromosomes (Turner's syndrome X0 and Kleinfelter's syndrome 47,XXY) and deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5 (Cri du Chat syndrome) are recognised as having abnormal dermatoglyphic patterns 3. Differences in fingerprint pattern frequencies from normal controls have also been found in leukaemia,4 early onset diabetes mellitus,5-8 alopecia areata,9 atopic dermatitis,10 rubella embryopathy,11 12 and chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction 13. These observations suggested that hereditary or environmental factors, acting in early gestation, may have played a role in the genesis of the disease.…”

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Dermatoglyphic patterns, very low birth weight, and blood pressure in adolescence

Stevenson

2001

Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition

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Aims-To test the null hypotheses that finger and palm prints have no relation with fetal growth or adolescent blood pressure. Methods-All 128 singleton, unimpaired, very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) infants born to mothers resident in the county of Merseyside in 1980 and 1981 were studied retospectively. The comparison group consisted of 128 age, sex, and school matched children. Main outcome measures were blood pressure at age 15 years, birth weight ratio, fingerprint patterns, and palmar AtD angles. Results-The VLBW index population had a significantly higher systolic blood pressure than the comparison group (mean diVerence 3.2 mm Hg). The diVerence in diastolic blood pressure between the VLBW index and the matched comparison group was not significant. No significant diVerences were found in the palmar AtD angles or in the fingerprint proportions of arches, loops, and whorls and no correlation was found between fingerprint patterns and blood pressure. Among the VLBW index population, both height and right palmar AtD angle were independently and significantly correlated with and explained 12.1% of the variance in the systolic blood pressure. Birth weight ratio, as a measure of fetal growth restriction, had no significant correlation with systolic blood pressure. Conclusions-The higher systolic blood pressure of adolescents who were of very low birth weight compared with the matched comparison group is not associated with fingerprint patterns or birth weight ratio as markers for fetal growth restriction. (Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2001;84:F18-F22)

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“…It was felt that in this group of patients with a known deleterious intrauterine experience, it would be useful to record the dermatoglyphs. Finger patterns were chosen as the factor to record, because it would be possible to compare our results with the data supplied by Purvis-Smith and Menser (1968).…”

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Clinical and Social Status of Patients with Congenital Rubella

Gumpel¹

1972

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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Gumpel, S. M. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 330. Clinical and social status of patients with congenital rubella. Eighty-five older patients with congenital rubella attending The Hospital for Sick Children were reassessed, paying special attention to their development and adaptation to their handicaps.They were a very handicapped group of children, nearly all were deaf, over twothirds had ocular defects, and over half had cardiac defects. 15 children had a single defect. Abnormal finger patternings were present in 35 %, but 21% of the mothers of these children had similar patterning. Only 9 children attended normal schools, the rest attended partial hearing units of residential schools for the deaf, and 24 children were in residential care for the mentally subnormal. Of the patients who had left school, 3 work in sheltered workshops, and 4 work as unskilled labour. No patient known to have had rubella antibody has lost antibody and there was no loss of immunological competence.In the past 30 years rubella has been clearly identified as a cause of fetal damage. Much information has been collected on the progress of the severely handicapped child up to school age (Sheridan, 1964), but less is known about his further prospects, and of the children with less severe handicaps.Since 1962 the staff of the Department of Microbiology have made a special study of the relation between infection in pregnancy and congenital defects, and in particular into the effect of rubella as a cause of fetal damage. As part of this study, it was felt that all the patients seen and closely studied during their earlier years should be reassessed, paying special attention to their development and adaptation to their handicaps, together with their antibody and immunological status.Among the important recent work on rubella, two aspects were particularly relevant to this study: firstly, the work of Menser, Dods, and Harley (1967) from Sydney, where they reported a 25-year follow-up of a group of patients with congenital rubella, and showed that many of these patients had become well adjusted despite severe handicaps; and secondly, the work of Kenrick et al. (1968) and Hardy et al. (1969) in which a few patients with

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Dermatoglyphics in Adults With Congenital Rubella

Cited by 60 publications

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Dermatoglyphs in leukaemia.

Dermatoglyphs in leukaemia.

Dermatoglyphic patterns, very low birth weight, and blood pressure in adolescence

Clinical and Social Status of Patients with Congenital Rubella

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