Common Genetic Variants Influence Whorls in Fingerprint Patterns

Affiliations

• ¹ QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address: Yvonne.Ho@qimrberghofer.edu.au.
• ² MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address: d.evans1@uq.edu.au.
• ³ QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁴ MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁵ MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ⁶ School of Social & Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol, UK; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Psychology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁹ National Centre for Forensic Studies, Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Office of the Chief Forensic Scientist, Forensic Services Department, Victoria Police, Australia.