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I worked with a woman that didn't have fingerprints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adermatoglyphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adermatoglyphia
by adrr 3y ago
I worked with a woman that didn't have fingerprints.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adermatoglyphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adermatoglyphia
- someplaceguy 3y ago> The disorder was informally nicknamed "immigration delay disease" by Professor Peter Itin after his first patient had trouble traveling to the U.S. without any fingerprints for identification. Thank you for the chuckle, Professor Peter Itin!
- scarface_74 3y agoThe TSA has mechanisms for that already. I have fingerprints. But because I have Cerebral Palsy that affects my left hand, it’s almost impossible for me To stretch it out to get good fingerprints. TSA can bypass it and just say “missing fingers” with a note. When I had to get my fingerprints rolled at the police station for a background check, they also have a standardized form
- crooked-v 3y agoI've anecdotally heard that lifelong chefs can also end up with no or unusable fingerprints after repeated burns and extensive calluses.
- dizhn 3y agoOperators of industrial equipment and machines such as welders usually lose their prints over the years too.
- more_corn 3y agoI worked with a Nepali cook who had no fingerprints. It was from continuous burning. He would also reach into a colander propped in boiling water to pull out and plate pasta. He was so desensitized to pain that he was not careful of the cooks around him. The guy to his right requested a shift transfer because he kept getting burned.
- mrb 3y ago"a person from Switzerland who lacked fingerprints. The phenotype was mapped to chromosome 4q22. In the splice-site of a 3' exon of the gene for SMARCAD1-helicase, a point mutation was detected." In the future parents might want to genetically modify their children to have this mutation :)