Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!hes From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) Newsgroups: net.bio Subject: Re: Identical twins and handedness Message-ID: <289@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:46:37 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.289 Posted: Wed Aug 21 09:46:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:52:54 EDT References: <233@drutx.UUCP> Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 13 > 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