[Dermatoglyphic aspects of the human morphological constitution].

The relationship between dermatoglyphic and somatical features was investigated on the basis of the comprehensive anthropological study of 242 young men and 427 girls that included finger-printing and measurement of more than 40 body, head and face parameters, and the use of different statistical methods. The relationship of somatic and dermatoglyphic characteristics detected in young men show a tendency to nonrandom increase of many skeletal body dimension parameters and body perimeters along with complication of dermatoglyphic patterns changing from the arch to the whorl type. In girls, similar regularity was detected for skin folds measured under the scapula and at the shoulder back surface. Results of canonic analysis of the skeletal parameters show significant separation of the young men group into dermatoglyphic phenotypes: complication of the finger-print pattern increases with more massive distal epiphyses of the limb bones.