Pattern of incidence of finger prints in the students of Frontier Medical Collage, Abbottabad

To establish the incidence in the occurrence of variations in different types of finger prints on the basis of regions. Frontier Medical College Abbottabad. July 2008 to October 2008. Retrospective study of finger prints in the students of FMC. Finger prints of 122 cases among the students Frontier Medical College are taken on proformas for retrospective study and a detailed examination is carried out subsequently. Out of 122 students 2% had arch pattern, 40% whorls, 43% loop and 15% had composite pattern. There lies a statistical variation in the occurrence of finger print pattern in our country as compared to the existing data available for the whole world