Introduction: Dermatoglyphics is the study of the patterns of the ridged skin of the digits, palms and soles. They are important in medical genetics chiefly because of their diagnostic usefulness in some dysmorphic syndromes. The commonest indicator of male infertility is ‘semen analysis’. when the spermatozoa concentration is less than 20million/ml the condition is referred to as ‘oligozoospermia’. Azospermia is a condition where the semen sample has no spermatozoa. Oligozoospermia & Azoospermia cause infertility.

The aim of our study is to compare the frequencies of different fingerprint patterns of infertile patient with that of the control group.

Materials and Methods: The infertile men attending the IVF centre of Rana Hospital pvt. ltd., Gorakhpur, U.P. was investigated for semen analysis. On its basis they were categorized into two groups. Their fingerprint patterns of both hands were taken by standard ink-pad method, on A4 size plain paper. Dermatoglyphic analysis was done.

Result: The most frequent type of finger print in both case groups was “loop”. Frequencies of different types among two groups of cases were statistically different (P<0.05). also they were statistically different with general population (P<0.05). Identical patterns of both hands were found in cases. 

Conclusion: It can be concluded that qualitative features of the finger prints of men with oligospermia were different with general population.

Keywords: dermatoglyphic, sperm count, infertile male, finger ridge count (FRC).

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Dr Bindu Singh

Lecturer -BRD Medical College Gorakhpur

Department of Anatomy

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