Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (04): 675-686.doi: 10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2024.0059

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Current situation and countermeasures of dermatoglyphic phenomics in China

ZHANG Haiguo1,2()   

  1. 1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438
    2. College of Basis Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200025
  • Received:2023-09-08 Revised:2024-07-10 Online:2024-08-15 Published:2024-08-13

Abstract:

In the dermatoglyphics phenomics of China, from 1978 to the present, completing a survey of dermatoglyphic variables for all ethnic groups in an ethnically diverse country like China is a huge research project, and an achievement that anthropological and dermatoglyphic scholars in the country could only have dreamed of before. However, through the efforts of scientists in China over the past 30 years, this dream has come true. Now we are organizing the previous achievements. Otherwise, we notice many problems that are not satisfactory. We investigated mostly 25 ethnic groups independently. We have conducted studies on 31 ethnic groups independently and still lack studies on 25 ethnic groups independently, which means the dermatoglyphics research in the country is incomplete. In the phenomics project items that are interrelated and related, we must add individual items. This article lists a large number of tasks that need to be accomplished. Dermatoglyphics phenomics research occupies and consolidates the top position internationally.

Key words: phenome, footprint, fingerprint, palmprin

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