Finger and Palm Prints for a Klinefelter-Down's Syndrome Patient

Contains 12 original palm prints from a Klinefelter-Down's syndrome patient, and one photograph of the patient's fingertips. This patient's case was covered in a paper titled "Finger-prints, palms and chromosomes" by Penrose in Nature, volume 197, 9 March 1963.

Mar 1960

13 prints

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.