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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: Identical twins and handedness
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:46:37 EDT
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> Come to think of it, are fingerprints the same on identical twins?
>                                      Sue Brezden
>                                      
From Levitan and Montague, "Textbook of Human Genetics" (2/e).
"The digital, palmar and plantar ridge counts and dermal patterns on
homolateral limbs tend to be strikingly alike in twins. ... Monozygous
[one egg - identical] twins may, however, differ very appreciably in
their dermatoglyphic traits owing, presumably, to factors operative
upon them during development."  
The discussion does mention that sometimes identical twins do have
identical dermal patterns, and that identical dermal patterns does
show that the twins are identical.
--henry schaffer