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> On page 5 of "Good Food, Gluten Free" is this paragraph:
>
>                 On 21st November 1971, the OBSERVER published
>         the report of a journalist that a medical student at
>         Bristol University (now a qualified doctor) had made
>         a special study of the finger prints of celiacs and
>         found them missing.  This had aroused the interest of
>         the police, who were concerned that there should exist
>         in Great Briatain 25,000 people without fingerprints...
>
> My best friend, who is also(by great coincidence!!) newly on the
> gluten-free, milk-free diet showed me her fingers, and sure enough--no
> fingerprints.  I remember back in my old eczema days, from age 4 to middle
> thirties, I had NO FINGERPRINTS then either.  Have others noticed this lack
> of fingerprints also?  Could this be an aid in diagnosing gluten
> intolerance?  Are there any other known disease conditions that have no
> fingerprints as a feature?
 
I haven't heard of this before. I have fingerprints now (as you do now as
well?). I'll have a word with a friend of mine in the police and see what
he knows about it. I think that manual labourers often have no prints because
they have been worn away.
 
   Tim