Abstract: Characteristics of the dermatoglyphs including fingerprint patterns, finger ridge counts and total finger ridge counts, a-b finger ridge, actual variety percentage of dermatoglyphic patterns of palm, palm patterns and atd angles of Chinese Korean in Yanbian were investigated among 200 males and 200 females. Sex differences of various items and comparison with the data of other races and nations have been studied. The result shows that dermatoglyph of Chinese Korean have some particular characters different from others.

Key words: Finger pattern; Palmar pattern; Dermatoglyphics; Korean nationality