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Dermatoglyphics of Negro Schizophrenic Males

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Anthony P. Polednak
Anthony P. Polednak*
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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Dermatoglyphic patterns, especially fingerprints, have long been of interest to researchers in the genetics of schizophrenia, but results of investigations have been inconsistent. Rosner and Steinberg (4) published the first dermatoglyphic study of Negro male schizophrenics, comparing finger and palm prints of 207 patients at Virginia State Hospital with those of 105 healthy Negro males from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness Perinatal Study. This is the second report on the dermatoglyphics of Negro male schizophrenics.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 557 , April 1972 , pp. 397 - 398
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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4. Rosner, F., and Steinberg, F. S. (1968). ‘Dermatoglyphic patterns of negro men with schizophrenia.’ Diseases of the Nervous System, 29, 739–43.Google Scholar
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