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Dermatoglyphics has proved to be very useful tool used for identification of many gene-linked abnormalities and diseases. The aim of this study was to compare the differences in the finger print patterns in type II diabetic mellitus with non-diabetic control group. This study included totally 400 patients of both sex normal and type II diabetic mellitus patients. All the patients were asked and got their palmer dermatoglyphic impression on plain white A4 paper used the ink method .The result obtained from the diabetic and non diabetic patients was more commonly founded in the loop pattern. For that Loop pattern correlated with radial and ulnar loop of non -diabetic males subjects were 45 % found to have radial loop , 21.5% were found to have ulnar loop, and the females non diabetic subjects were 28.6% found to have radial loop, 21.3% were found in ulnar loop. Radial loops were found the predominant digital pattern in non- diabetic males as well as females. Diabetic patients loop pattern correlated with radial and ulnar loop of males subjects were 19.41% found to have radial loop ,42.4% were found to have ulnar loop, and the female diabetic subjects were 24.05% found to have radial loop ,32.6% were found to have ulnar loop. In both sex diabetic subjects ulnar loop were found to the predominant. Dermatoglyphics provide a simple, inexpensive, anatomical, and non-invasive means of determining the diseases which have a strong hereditary basis and can be employed as a method of screening for diabetes mellitus of high-risk population on early detection, thus reducing the morbidity and mortality.