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Finger, hand and foot prints of 70 patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) have been compared with 70 non-phenylketonuric patients with birth trauma and postencephalitis. Both groups were taken from the same institution, they had the same social background, the same age distribution and belonged to the same ethnic groups (Anglo-Saxons). The prints of the PKU patients were also compared with various normal and abnormal German populations.
The most striking observation in the PKU patients was the significant prevalence of pattern free fields in their palms and the reduced or lacking C-line as compared with the controls.
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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. H. Nachtsheim's 75th birthday on June 13, 1965.
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Hirsch, W. Finger, hand and foot prints in phenylketonuria as compared with other normal and abnormal populations. Humangenetik 1, 246–252 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00395655
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00395655