People without fingerprints

In 2007, the year twenty Swiss could not cross the border with the United States. The reason was 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 the members of her family are also missing some "biological terrain". The researchers concluded: blame Adermatoglyphia, genetic abnormality, which is a segment of DNA mutation responsible for the formation of papillary pattern. Critical to this is the protein «SMARCAD», which is not encoded during synthesis. It is also interesting that in the absence of local terrain, and lowered the level of sweating. Now scientists are trying to find out all the secrets SMARCAD protein and its role in the formation of the pattern on the fingers, palms and soles.

Source: mirfactov.com/