DNA Traits · Appearance
Fingerprint whorls (ADAMTS9 marker)
Whether fingertip ridges form whorls, rather than loops or arches.
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Evidence · Replicated
What the research found
In the cited research, the G allele at rs1523452 was associated with more whorl patterns on the little fingers.
- AA
- Fewer whorls
- AG
- Middle
- GG
- More whorls
Slight effect
- Evidence
- Genome-wide association with independent replication
- Who was studied
- Australian twins and families (QIMR) and UK children (ALSPAC), European ancestry
1000 Genomes Project
How common each genotype is
| Region | AAFewer whorls | AGMiddle | GGMore whorls |
|---|---|---|---|
| All regions2,504 people | 58% | 33% | 9% |
| Africa661 people | 37% | 46% | 17% |
| The Americas347 people | 68% | 28% | 4% |
| East Asia504 people | 93% | 7% | Not seen |
| Europe503 people | 63% | 32% | 5% |
| South Asia489 people | 38% | 46% | 16% |
Among the 2,504 people of the 1000 Genomes Project, in five world regions. These percentages describe groups of people, never anyone’s chance of having a trait.
rs1523452
The marker
- Gene or region
- ADAMTS9-AS2
- Marker
- rs1523452
- Location
- Chromosome 3 · GRCh37 64,947,340 · GRCh38 64,961,665
- Letters studied
- A and G, with G as the studied allele
A DNA Traits report reads this marker in your raw DNA file and shows which of the three genotypes is yours, with how common it is. It counts the copies of the studied allele; it does not measure the trait itself.
- Marker
- ADAMTS9-AS2 · rs1523452
- Location
- Chromosome 3 · GRCh37 64,947,340 · GRCh38 64,961,665
- Studied allele
- G
- Published statistic
- whorl on the left little finger: QIMR discovery P 7.12e-9 (n 3,301), ALSPAC independent replication P 1.60e-20 (n 5,339), meta-analysis P 9.74e-27, 1.61% of variance; right little finger meta P 7.62e-15, 0.93%; left and right ring fingers P 2.16e-21 and 1.33e-17 (Figure 1 legend); 'With more G alleles, the proportion of whorls increases' (Figure 2c legend; QIMR unrelated AA 708, AG 335, GG 49) (Main text; Figure 1 and Figure 2 legends)
- 1000 Genomes Project phase 3, people with 0, 1 and 2 copies
- All regions 1451 / 824 / 229 · Africa 244 / 302 / 115 · The Americas 237 / 97 / 13 · East Asia 468 / 36 / 0 · Europe 316 / 163 / 24 · South Asia 186 / 226 / 77
Limits
What it cannot tell you
Fingerprints were scored finger by finger; the link is strongest for whorls on the little fingers.
Common genetic variants influence whorls in fingerprint patterns (Ho et al., 2016)The same topic
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