THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1977 Page 3 Palms read by nun United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Palm read ing is not the sort of thing you’d ex- lect to find a Catholic nun doing, put Sister Grace Mary Flickinger [specializes in it. However, she’s quick to add, it’s the name of science. Sister Grace Mary is one of the lew scientists around the world Specializing in “dermatoglyphics” the study of palm prints and fingerprints for clues to genetic de jects and other health problems. All those little lines, ridges, loops |nd whirls — often studied by for- unetellers to “predict future” — iiay actually give doctors and scien- Jists a method of checking whether Infants have Down’s Syndrome Mongolism, are prone to leukemia [r carry the traits of sickle cell Inemia. What’s more, the initial tests [vould be quick, painless and cheap. “You could do a finger and palm Irint at birth, because it’s not going |o change the rest of life,” Sister trace Mary said. “There’s no one Iharacteristic which would pinpoint Iny sort of genetic disease, but there are certain characteristics which would be more common.” The sister, an assistant professor of biology at Xavier University, earned her doctorate in biology, doing research in genetics through dermatoglyphics. For her disserta tion, she took more than 300 finger and palm prints. She’s now working on a project to study black youngsters in New Or leans to see if the prints show a cor relation with sickle cell anemia, a blood disorder which affects mostly blacks. Sister Grace Mary said certain palm print characteristics show up more often in persons with Down’s Syndrome than they do in normal persons. Other scientists have shown correlations between specific hand patterns and leukemia. 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