Polyfingered

Polyfingered

Polydactyly (latin: polydactyly) is a medical term for the condition when a person has more than six fingers on one hand or on both hands or on one foot. This phenomenon is quite rare and usually occurs in a small number of people. Multifingering can be congenital or acquired. The congenital variant can manifest itself in various forms, from slight deviations in the shape of the hand to complete doubling of the hands. Inheritance of polydactylism is associated with mutations in the POU1B gene. There are also cases where both parents were multifingered - in this case, symptoms of manifestation could be less likely to occur in children. There is an opinion among scientists that polydacty is a serious hereditary anomaly that affects the child’s intellectual development, learning difficulties and neurological condition. If such a deviation was discovered in a child under three years of age, doctors recommend consulting with geneticists to conduct tests.