. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 12.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Phys Anthropol. 2005 Sep;128(1):57–62. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20093

TABLE 1.

Frequency of fingerprint patterns for each hand and digit

	Whorl	Loop	Arch	Chi-square	P
Right hand digit
I	80	15	16	74.97	0.001
II	110	31	3	128.29	0.001
III	107	29	10	108.59	0.001
IV	98	43	6	87.47	0.001
V	74	73	1	71.04	0.001
Left hand digit
I	81	12	18	78.97	0.001
II	91	49	2	83.76	0.001
III	97	38	11	79.49	0.001
IV	95	47	4	85.16	0.001
V	50	99	0	16.11	0.01