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This Bangladesh Family Has Had Three Generations Of Men Who Have No Fingerprints © Provided by Indiatimes Fingerprints are often used to identify someone in official records, but what if you don't have any? Well, this family from Bangladesh has three generations of men who do not have fingerprints. Apu Saker, and the male members in his family appear to share a genetic mutation because of which they do not have any fingerprints.  The condition is rare and called Adermatolyphia. It is characterised by the lack of ridges on the skin of the fingers, toes, palms of the hand and soles of the fe...

A family in Bangladesh appears to have no fingerprints due to a genetic mutation so rare it is thought to affect only a small number of people in the world.  Apu Sarker, 22, and the men in his family share the condition which leaves the pads of their fingers smooth and devoid of the unique ridges that make up fingerprints, the BBC's Mir Sabbir reported.   Where having no fingerprints caused few problems for Sarker's grandfather, the same can't be said decades later. Fingerprints are now used for everything from passing through airports to opening smartphones.  In Bangladesh, providing f...

The Men in This Bangladeshi Family Have No Fingerprints In a world where fingerprints are the most collected and used biometric data, having no fingerprints is both a blessing and a curse, as the men in the Sarker family can attest. For several generations, Sarker men have been born with completely smooth fingertips, and while that may not have been a huge deal a generation or two ago, nowadays, when the swirling patterns on the tip of our fingers are used as the main way to identify individuals, it’s an issue. For example, some of the men in the Bangladeshi family have been unable to obtai...

A family in Bangladesh struggles with an extremely rare genetic condition, "immigration delay disease".