The finger pads of a person with adermatoglyphia are entirely smooth. Photo by Sprecher et. al. In 2007, dermatologist Peter Itin was contacted by a Swiss woman with an unusual quandry: She was having ...

Apu Sarker was showing his open palm to me on a video call from his home in Bangladesh. Nothing seemed unusual at first, but as I looked closer I could see the smooth surfaces of his fingertips. Apu, ...

Adermatoglypia, which leaves some individuals without fingerprints, is an exceedingly rare condition. Now researchers have traced the cause of the condition to a genetic mutation that affects only ...

A rare gene mutation may be the reason that some people are born without fingerprints, a new study finds. The fingerprint-free disorder is informally known as "immigration delay disease," because some ...

Scientists have identified a mutation that might underlie an extremely rare condition, called "adermatoglyphia," which causes people to be born without any fingerprints. The research not only provides ...

Like DNA, fingerprints are unique to each person or set of identical twins. That makes them a valuable identification tool for everything from crime detection to international travel. But what happens ...

A family in Bangladesh appears to have no fingerprints due to a genetic mutation so rare it is thought to affect only a small number of people in the world. Apu Sarker, 22, and the men in his family ...

A genetic mutation causes people to be born without fingerprints, a new study says. Almost every person is born with fingerprints, and everyone's are unique. But people with a rare disease known as ...

In Michael Mosley: Nine Months That Made You, the eponymous host meets Cheryl Maynard, who was born without fingerprints because of the genetic disorder adermatoglyphia. While we take the swirly lines ...

Scientists have identified a mutation that might underlie an extremely rare condition, called "adermatoglyphia," which causes people to be born without any fingerprints. The research, published by ...

The upside of adermatoglyphia: You may have a bright future in crime. The rare skin condition causes some people to be born without fingerprints, and it’s the subject of a new study published in the ...