Schaumann B, Johnson S B, Jantz R L
Prog Clin Biol Res. 1982;84:325-34.
A dermatoglyphic study of 197 adult Caucasian males with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy was carried out in an attempt to ascertain possible associations between aberrant dermatoglyphic and seizures and to estimate their diagnostic usefulness. Qualitative and quantitative fingertip and palmar dermatoglyphic traits were evaluated. The data were analyzed by etiology seizures. Previous studies and our own earlier data (Schaumann 1979) analyzed by univariate statistical methods indicated the presence of some dermatoglyphic deviations in patients with epilepsy, suggesting the existence of a genetic predisposition to seizures of various etiologies. In the present study, a multivariate analysis was employed on an enlarged patient sample. Three variables were found to be significant: an increased main line index on the right palm (p less than .01) and decreased a-b ridge counts on both left and right palms (p less than .001). Tests of the eigenvalues showed only one value to be significant and accounting for 71.8% of the intergroup variation.
对197名确诊为癫痫的成年白人男性进行了皮纹学研究，旨在确定异常皮纹与癫痫发作之间可能存在的关联，并评估其诊断价值。对指尖和手掌的皮纹特征进行了定性和定量评估。数据按癫痫病因进行分析。先前的研究以及我们自己早期的数据（绍曼，1979年）采用单变量统计方法分析表明，癫痫患者存在一些皮纹偏差，这表明存在各种病因癫痫发作的遗传易感性。在本研究中，对扩大后的患者样本进行了多变量分析。发现三个变量具有显著性：右手掌主线指数增加（p小于0.01），左手掌和右手掌a-b嵴纹计数减少（p小于0.001）。特征值检验显示只有一个值具有显著性，占组间变异的71.8%。
