Do identical twins have identical fingerprints?

Live Science ^ | 08/07/2021 | By Harry Baker -

[central_va]

Why am I thinking about the Patty Duke Show now?

[lil'bit]

There's one of those pesky little facts.

"they don't quite share 100% of the same DNA..."

Identical twins DO share 100% of the same dna, fact.

[Verginius Rufus]

I have second cousins, twice removed, who are identical twins. Their parents claimed that they didn't know if they were identical or not so I gave them two MyHeritage DNA test kits. They came back as 99.9% identical DNA. The MyHeritage people thought that both were for the same person (I guess they never heard of identical twins).

The father of those twins is a twin himself but clearly a fraternal twin--he and his brother do not closely resemble each other.

[Political Junkie Too]

"I love you."
[Turns]
However, I hate you."

-PJ

[Karoo]

I bet their prints were identical

[Blood of Tyrants]

Short anwser is no, everyone has unique fingerprints.

[Trillian]

I have identical twins. No, they do not.

[lepton]

By the way, my wife doesn’t have recordable finger prints (which has given her trouble throughout her adult life). She says she they wore off when she learned to type.

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If she does more manual labor they’ll reappear.