摘要：The purpose of the study was to find out the prominent contributing dermatoglyphic factors among national level men Cyclists. The subjects were 80 cyclists, who have participated in the National Cycling Championship held at New Delhi in March 1993 and in the III National Games held at Pune in January 1994. Forty dermatoglyphic variables were selected for this study. They included ( 1) Types of finger pattern, (2) Ridge counts (3) Pattern intensity (4) Ridge count per square Cms (5) Attained angles, and (6) Matric analysis of the palm. Factor Analysis (Principal Component Analysis) was done to find out the prominent dermatoglyphic factors comprising of any one or all of the selected dermatoglyphic variables among male cyclists. The unloaded factors obtained were then rotated by Varimax method to find out the final solution. Item with loading greater than or equal to 0.40 of Varimax solution were selected for discussing each factor. Four prominent factors extracted after factor analysis were Ridge Count Factor, Horizontal Inter Triradial Distance Factor, Angular Factor & Shortest Inter Triradial Distance Factor. Keywords: Dermatoglyphic patterns, cyclists.
