Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences Vol. 8, Issue 1, JAN – MAR 2014 Website: www.pjmhsonline.com page no.162 Finger Prints Pattern Variation in Diabetic Patients YASER AMEER, RIZWAN ZAFAR ANSARI, MUDASER HUSSAIN ABBASI, MIAN ABDUR RASHEED, HAROON HABIB , SALAHUDDIN, SANVAL A WARRIACH, AHMED TARIQ, TOUQEER AHMED Assistant Prof. Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Lahore Medical & Dental CollegeLahore, 2 . Assistant Prof. Forensic Medicine & Toxicology ,Islam Medical & Dental College, Sialkot 3 .Associate Prof. Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Avicenna Medical College Lahore 4 .Prof.Forensic Medicine& Toxicology, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Medical college, Mir pur, Azad Kashmir, 5 Lecturer in Biochemistry, Avicenna Medical College Lahore 6,8 .Lecturer Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Avicenna Medical College Lahore 7 .Medical Officer Surgery, Avicenna Hospital, Lahore 9 .Resident Surgery, Lahore General Hospital Lahore. Correspondence to Dr. Yaser Ameer, Assistant Professor ABSTRACT Aim: To determine the variation of finger prints pattern among Diabetic patients and to support the evidence of court of law regarding identification of persons. Study design: Descriptive study Place and duration of study: Study was conducted at Avicenna Medical College, Lahore and data was collected from the department of Medicine of Avicenna Hospital, Lahore. Methods: Finger prints were collected from the subjects after obtaining their informed consent in the month of June 2013-October, 2013. A total of 100 diagnosed patients of Diabetes Mellitus were selected from the OPD of Avicenna Medical College, Lahore, and data was analyzed at Avicenna Medical College Lahore. Finger prints were recorded on a plain white paper with a stamp pad by plain and rolled method and each finger print was assigned by their Name, Age, Sex, and Blood groups were recorded on the Proforma. Results: The majority of the patients were belonging to whorl pattern of finger prints i-e. fifty 50% where as the number of patients belonging to Loop pattern was forty five 45%, composite was only 2,2%, and no any particular patient belonging to Arch pattern. Conclusion: Each fingerprint is unique hence it can be very effectively used as an evidence for identification in the court of law. Majority of the patients was belonging to whorl pattern of finger prints followed by patients belonging to Loop pattern and the least pattern was composite. Keywords: Diabetes, finger prints, INTRODUCTION Diabetes mellitus is one such disease with a strong genetic basis 1 . It is unanimously recognized, that diabetes, generally, and type 2 diabetes, especially, represents a major threatening of the public health condition worldwide, if considering the epidemic ratios recorded at planetary scale seen as dramatically increasing all over the world 2,3,4,5 . In 2030, it is estimated that the total number of diabetes - affected people will reach 366 millions. This idea is also supported by the fact that, annually, 3.2 million persons die of diabetes, 8,700 die every day, 6 persons every minute, which explains the anticipations provided by World Health Organization (WHO), International Diabetes Federation (IFD), European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and European Diabetes Care Predicators (EURO DIAB) according to which, in the future diabetes will be on the top of the mortality and morbidity causes along with cardio-vascular diseases and cancer 5,6,7 . The type of fingerprint is unique based on the genetical characteristics of each individual. The analysis of the shape of lines on the fingers of hand and foot is called dermatoglyphic. In