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In your alternate life as a thief, wouldn’t it be awfully convenient to rub your mitts all over the diamond case without having to glove up? Or much simpler to open any door, window or ventilation duct without having to pull your sleeves over your hands? Sure it would be – just go through life without fingerprints and the world of thievery may be at your…err…fingertips. Maybe not what MJ meant by a “smooth criminal,” but hey, whatever works.
This may in fact be a possibility, one day far in the future if we ever figure out how to get gene therapy to work. For now though, this remains a rare genetic condition, found in only four families in the world, known as “adermatoglyphia.” In a study published recently in the American Journal of Human Genetics, Dr. Eli Scherer and colleagues figured out the gene responsible for this condition.
