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{{Stub}} '''Fingerprint changes''' that may show as faded prints and/or lines across the fingerprints, horizontal and vertical, occur in approximately 40% of [[ME/CFS]] patients, according to ME/CFS expert, Dr [[Paul Cheney|Paul R. Cheney]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | url = http://www.tldp.com/issue/157-8/157pub.htm | title = Chronic Fatigue, Mycotoxins, Abnormal Clotting and Other Notes | website = tldp.com|access-date=2019-12-12}}</ref> Ten percent of [[ME/CFS]] patients cannot be fingerprinted whatsoever.<ref name=":0" /> This may also happen with other diseases, such as [[Raynaud's syndrome|Raynaudโs syndrome]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal | last = Drahansky | first = Martin | last2 = Dolezel | first2 = Michal | last3 = Urbanek | first3 = Jaroslav | last4 = Brezinova | first4 = Eva | last5 = Kim | first5 = Tai-hoon | date = 2012 | title = Influence of Skin Diseases on Fingerprint Recognition | url =http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2012/626148/|journal=Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology|language=en|volume= | pages = 1โ14|doi=10.1155/2012/626148|issn=1110-7243|pmc = 3359776|pmid=22654483}}</ref> [[celiac disease]],<ref>{{Cite journal | last = David | first = T.J. | last2 = Ajdukiewicz | first2 = A.B. | last3 = Read | first3 = A.E. | date = 1970-12-05 | title = Fingerprint Changes in Coeliac Disease | url =http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.4.5735.594|journal=BMJ|language=en|volume=4|issue=5735 | pages = 594โ596|doi=10.1136/bmj.4.5735.594|issn=0959-8138|pmc = 1820184|pmid=5488703}}</ref> some [[Autoimmune disease|autoimmune conditions]],<ref>{{Cite journal | last = | first = | author-link = | date = May 2015 | title = Vanishing pigment and fingerprints: An autoimmune connection?| url = https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0190962215001310|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology|language=en|volume=72|issue=5| pages=AB1|doi=10.1016/j.jaad.2015.02.012|pmc=|pmid=|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref> and some skin diseases,<ref name=":1" /> but it's extremely rare in the general population.<ref name=":0" /> ==See also== *[[Osler's Web]] by [[Hillary Johnson]], page 142 *[[Stricken|Stricken - Voices From the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome]] by Peggy Munson ==Learn more== *[https://nopostergirl.com/2011/02/27/the-fact-of-fingerprints ''The Fact of Fingerprints''] - A blog post by No Poster Girl *[http://www.tldp.com/issue/157-8/157pub.htm ''Chronic Fatigue, Mycotoxins, Abnormal Clotting and Other Notes''] - Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients by Jonathan Collin M.D. * The Paradox of Lost Fingerprints: Metaphor and the Shaming of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, chapter 14, by Peggy Munson - [https://books.google.com/books?id=-RHKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124&lpg=PT124&dq=The+Paradox+of+Lost+Fingerprints:+Metaphor+and+the+Shaming+of+Chronic+Fatigue+Syndrome+by+Peggy+Munson&source=bl&ots=NRg3c4uLUt&sig=ACfU3U2emO5VkfvaCSGqvJyYYHsNtlhpvg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahU (excerpt on Google books)] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Signs and symptoms]]
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