DERMATOGLYPHICS AND BLOOD GROUP IN MEDICAL STUDENTS OF KHYBER MEDICAL COLLEGE AND KHYBER COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, PESHAWAR.

Objectives: To find an association between finger print pattern and blood group. Materials and Methods: Study was conducted on 400 healthy medical and dental students of Khyber Medical College and Khyber College of dentistry, Peshawar. The finger prints was categorized into arches, loops and whorls pattern. The statistical analysis was done by using frequency distribution and chi square test. A P value of ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. SPSS version 22 was used for analysis. Results: Results of this study showed that loops had the highest percentage as 53.47% in the RH+ blood type and 5.07% in the RH- blood type. This was followed by the whorl fingerprint pattern as 29.57% in the RH+ blood type and 3.07% in the RH- blood type. The lowest percentage was found for the arch fingerprint pattern as 8.2% and 0.06% for RH+ and RH- blood types, respectively. Conclusion: On basis of the findings in this study, there is an association of fingerprint patterns of all the digits of both hands with the ABO blood group types and this information can be of great help in forensic department and crime investigations.