One of life's great marvels is that, much like snowflakes, no two fingerprints are alike. This goes even for identical twins, who split from the very same egg. In fact, fingerprints are so unique that we actually have different prints on each and every digit!, Each person's fingerprints are unique. Even identical twins, who have the same DNA, have different fingerprints. Learn how genetics affects your fingerprints., Even identical twins – who have the same DNA sequence and tend to share a very similar appearance – have slightly different fingerprints. That’s because fingerprints are influenced by both genetic and environmental factors during development in the womb. Fingerprints are set between 13 and 19 weeks of foetal development., Our results showed that: (a) A state-of-the-art automatic fingerprint verification system can distinguish identical twins without drastic degradation in performance. (b) The chance that the fingerprints have the same type from identical twins is 0.7440, comparing to 0.3215 from non-identical twins., Using a neural network, a team of researchers led by engineering senior Gabe Guo of Columbia University has identified different fingerprints belonging to the same person – or intra-person prints – with a success rate of up to 77 percent for a single pair of prints., .