Net fingers

Twenty Swiss can not cross the border with the United States. The reason is the inability to determine its identity by fingerprints - skin pattern on the fingertips just missing. Documented everything was clean, excluded and criminal past.

The investigation revealed that among the nine members of her family are also absent "biological terrain". Next, the case of the family passes by the investigators, who conclude - is "Adermatoglyphia", a genetic anomaly: mutation of the DNA segment, responsible for the formation of papillary pattern. Critical to this is the protein "SMARCAD1", which is not encoded during synthesis. It is also interesting that in places otsutviya relief, reduced the level of sweating.

Now scientists are trying to find out all the secrets SMARCAD1 protein and its role in the formation of the pattern on the fingers, palms and soles.
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