Rare Mutation Leaves People Without Fingerprints
- Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:21am by
Liz Klimas
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It‘s a criminal’s dream mutation: to be born without fingerprints. In fact, Daily Mail reported John Dillinger, a famous Chicagoan bank robber from the 1930s, had his burned off with acid so he couldn’t be identified by them.
From a scientific standpoint though, there is a reason someone is born without fingerprints and it can be correlated with other symptoms, beyond just an inconvenience when posed with a finger scanner, as well. Recent research out of Tel Aviv University in Israel on adermatoglyphia, or Immigration Delay Disease, has found the mutation on the SMARCAD1 gene, which influences finger development.
Watch the scientists describe their findings:
According to the research, this gene may also be correlated with sweat gland development, as patients without finger prints often also have fewer sweat glands. Further research will investigate if and how this gene could be related to other skin diseases.
Fingerprints, according to the FBI, are the ultimate personal identifier, as no two people’s fingerprints are alike:
Fingerprints offer an infallible means of personal identification. Other personal characteristics may change, but fingerprints do not.
There are different categories of fingerprint characteristics. (Image: FBI)
The Daily Mail reported that the disease was first identified when a Swiss woman tried to come to the United States. When asked to take her finger prints, the woman said it would be impossible. She and nine other members of her family have the mutation.
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TomFerrari
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:51amWith today’s technology, people will be selecting children without fingerprints, blonde hair, and blue eyes.
Report Post »Don’t believe me?
Some sperm banks will not ACCEPT “donations” from redheads (“gingers”), and we all KNOW what Hitler/Germany did.
Designer GENES !?
AR_OR_AK
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:18pmFingerprints are outdated. I think DNA would be the identifier of choice.
Report Post »Aristacah
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 6:32pmYou can’t remove your fingerprints with acid. That is a fallacy. Besides fingerprints, there are palm prints, shoe prints, traces of DNA….if you do the crime, you will do the time. You will get caught.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:47amActually, if you cause sufficient damage to the epidermis, and to the dermal layer beneath, it will result in scar tissue, thereby eliminating “fingerprints.” I have one such spot on one finger from a meat slicer accident. (I was TOLD not to slice tomatoes on the meat slicer, but I did anyway.) Then, I had the pleasure of driving myself to the emergency room – - the finger was on the right hand, and my car had a standard transmission – stick shift! Talk about fun! lol At least I was slicing “THIN” tomatoes!
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:53pmyou can burn off fingerprints with acid or a flame. but it doesn’t work, the scars left behind are identifiable. Plus, the action of taken such measure is suspicious in itself. Brick layers and other laborers can wear the ridges down temporarily but not all of them. this is resolved by a simple moisturizing lotion we taking a print to identify.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:47amThis is my understanding as well.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:20pmGOD detests people… who want to Identify and Control People!
Report Post »Diego Roswell
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:28pmI have jobs for any of these fingerprint freaks that are unemployed.
Report Post »PApeacemaker
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:19pmFreakin awesome I wonder what kind of acid you need to burn off your prints. I think everyone should have there prints removed that way its that much more harder for the government to keep tabs on us.
Report Post »NYHuguenot
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:56pmSulphuric acis, Phenolic Acid will work. Potassium Hydrochloide an Alkali
Report Post »Liberty 4x4
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 11:19amSilly boy, you have no idea why we have fingerprints. Fingerprints enable us to grip things and as we get older they deteriorate and it gets harder and harder to open jars and to hold onto objects. So, if we all did not have fingerprints we would need special tools for gripping, not a ideal situation.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:19pmTake her DNA.
Report Post »M13
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:04pmIs this worse than liberal brain mutation which makes liberals babble on without making any sense at all?
Report Post »katcam
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:57amIt’s not a disease, it’s a disorder. Big difference. Google (or Bing) Ectodermal Dysplasia. My daughter is has it and doesn’t have fingerprints, among other characteristics (ie…no sweat glands, sparse hair, very few teeth- she has had dentures since the age of 2, she is now a beautiful 18-year-old college student.
Report Post »BloodyArtist22
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:56amIt’s not a mutation; it‘s God’s way of helping us for when the government tracks our every move. It‘s nature’s next generation of defense. :)
Report Post »altops
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:03ami like this responc
Report Post »SCARED
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:21amHas anyone ever checked all the finger prints of people on earth to make sure there are not any duplicate sets?
Report Post »Shortcopy
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:06pmSir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was the first person to state that fingerprints can be used as a scientific basis for individualization during court cases. He calculated that the odds of any two people having the same fingerprints were 1 in 64 billion.
Twins don’t share the same fingerprints.
Report Post »Liberty 4x4
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 12:32pmYour answer is, No! Though, the FBI has the largest collection of fingerprints on computer in the world and has yet to find any duplicates.
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:40amIs that 0bama’s hand in the picture?
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:21amObama has never had is prints taken. There is a SS agents who job is to wipe Obama’s prints off anything he touches to prevent attempts to identify him. Only the KGB has copies of his prints and Chicago PD arrest records. All other records have been destroyed.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:42amI wonder if you could still get your weapons permit without prints? I know they printed me when I got my weapons permit. Using fingerprints at the airports would be a good idea also instead of the body search.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:05amI almost wish I did not have fingerprints. This would thwart Big Brother when he decides that we have to have our fingers scanned to fly in an airplane for traveling. Although, it would be less intrusive than the current methods.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:24amSo….pull a Dillinger?
Report Post »Suzee
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:02amAha! Revelations! This is a guise to indoctrinate all for the 666 implant forearm or forehead …..it is about security you know! Oh geez, it playing out right before our eyes and still people don’t get it!
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:31amBy that time you will need authorization and ‘papers’ to travel from state to state.
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:19amYou can get rid of them, but it is an inconvenience to not have them. Years ago I applied for a government job that required an FBI background check complete with a fingerprint check. But at the time I had no fingerprints because my job at the time involved the extensive use of 80- and 100-grit sandpaper. They couldn’t get a good reading on my fingerprints because the sandpaper had worn them away.
No fingerprints, no background check.
No background check, no job.
I had to wear gloves on the job for a few months and return to be fingerprinted two more times before my fingerprints grew back enough for a good reading.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:56ampeople without fingerprints are obviously shapeshifters..
Report Post »Guitar Master
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:28amzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The REPORTER Speaks
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As it was stated by The REPORTER last week when THE BLAZE featured the “crapping” story, the editor of THE BLAZE should be fired immediately because this site is turning into a smut site with stories like this idiotic fingerprint story.
Keep it up BLAZE and your credibility as a genuine news site will be toast !!!
Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:50amMaster of three chord twing twang, your Portland gig not go too well today.
Report Post »I am sure the Blaze editor is trembling, what a derelicht.
Suzee
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:07amuhh and you ‘geetar mathstr’ can google OCCUPY and find out how to join a 99 near you!
Report Post »Tired_of_The_Liberal_Spin
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:03amOh dear, time to sell short on the shares of Burglar Gloves Inc.
Report Post »MARCH4HIM
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:03amI dont think it matters anymore.
three letters…….DNA………..
by the way.
Report Post »Has anyone watched the show “person of interest’
With ‘Jim Caviezel“ it basicly uses the ”minority report” idea.Only its a massive computer, designed to tracks street cameras ,intercepted phone calls ..ect.
spooky stuff.
I wonder how far down that road we are ?
UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:12amDo a google search for “Carnivore System”, then realize that technology is 20 years in the past…
Report Post »Tronix
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:57amA psychopath would kill for those fingers.
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:52amThe “news” is irrelevant, there’s this new fangled thing called DNA.
They should study the common mutation that the uber liberal 10% believe they are a majority.
Report Post »The prescription Maryjane just treats the symptom and is not the cure.
lobotomy doesn’t work either it turns them progressive.
SeanW
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:21amGod’s just running out of ideas for the designs to keep up with the population growth.
Report Post »nelsonknew
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:16amIn other developments, not-so-rare mutation leaves left-wingers without the ability to form cognitive thought, the ability to read the 5th-grade syntax of the U.S. Constitution and a tendency toward sociopathic behavior…….. film at 11.
Report Post »Beckett
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:11amThat is odd, I just got finger printed for my job and they told me I did not have fingerprints, that 2 -3% of the population do not. I guess I should have been a crook.
Report Post »Sebastian Xavier
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:44amWouldn’t you know if you have fingerprints? That’s one if the things kids notice pretty early, and look at even more when they learn about fingerprints in elementary school. It should be pretty easy to tell. On the other hand maybe you never notice something you don’t have.
GumRock
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:04amYea .. Thats the Ticket !
Report Post »I was born ,, Untraceable,, Yeaaaaa
ya Got nottin on me Copper !
Exrepublisheep
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:10amHhmmmm, there were no prints left at the scene…It must have been YOU!!!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:11amWell, so much for the theory of Pelosi being an space alien…no prints…
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