天生指纹缺失

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia report that defects in the protein keratin 14 may be responsible for both diseases, known as Naegeli syndrome and dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis (DPR).

研究员们称蛋白质角质素14的缺失可能导致了这两个病例.这种病例称为DPR.

The lack of fingerprints can cause vexing social problems, which are magnified because few people have heard of the condition.

指纹缺失可能引起令人困扰的社会问题,因为几乎没人听说过这种情形.

Cheryl Maynard of Fairfax, Virginia, is part of the fifth generation of her family to have inherited DPR from her mother''s side.

梅纳德是家族中的第15代,她从她的母亲那里遗传了DPR.

"My father was in the military and he had top-secret clearances," she recalled.

她回忆说,"我父亲在军方工作."

"We moved a lot, and everywhere we went they''d say, What do you mean your wife doesn''t have fingerprints? What do you mean that you have kids without fingerprints?"

"我们迁了好复渭?在每个地方人们都会问,你是说你妻子没有指纹?你是说你的孩子没有指纹??"

Maynard has personally experienced many fingerprint-related snafus, often related to employment.

梅纳德自己经历了数次与指纹相关的麻烦,通常是因为求职.

She works as a flight attendant and noted that a standard background check by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which took about 2 weeks for most of her peers, took 14 weeks in her case.

她从事空姐工作,需要获得美国联邦航空管理处的证明.这种事情她的同事只用了2个周,但她却花费了14个周.

"I applied for work at a jail facility, and they were naturally fingerprinting people who were going to be employees," she said.

"我申请过一家监狱里的工作,他们对求职者会很自然留下指纹."

"I kept hearing, Of course you have fingerprints. And five or six different technicians were telling one another, You''re doing this wrong, let me do this. I have to tell them I was born without them."

"我听着他们的谈话,你们当然有指纹,5,6个技术人员相互交谈.你们错了,让我来告诉你们.我必须告诉他们我生下来就没指纹."

"Things like that are a problem," Maynard said. "It has delayed me [from] getting jobs."

"这类事情真得很成问题."梅纳德说,"它让我找工作很费力."

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