Qualitative Analysis of Primary Fingerprint Pattern in Different Blood Group and Gender in Nepalese

Table 3

Distribution of primary patterns of fingerprints in all digits of both hands among males, females, and ABO blood group ().

Types of fingerprint patterns	Blood group A		Blood group B		Blood group AB		Blood group O
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Loops	188	197	247	249	53	48	279	292
% within males and females in each blood group	49.47%	51.84%	50.41%	50.82%	48.18%	53.33%	53.65%	54.07%
Whorls	165	180	213	204	47	38	220	216
% within males and females in each blood group	43.42%	47.37%	43.47%	41.63%	42.73%	42.22%	42.31%	40.00%
Arches	27	3	30	37	10	4	21	32
% within males and females in each blood group	7.11%	0.79%	6.12%	7.55%	9.09%	4.45%	4.04%	5.93%
Total	380	380	490	490	110	90	520	540
%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Statistics	Chi^2 = 20.062,		Chi^2 = 0.944,		Chi^2 = 1.39,		Chi^2 = 2.24,
	,		,		,		,
	Bonferroni correction