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An ROC curve may be symmetric about the negative diagonal of the graphical plot, or skewed towards the left-hand axis or the upper axis of the plot. ROC curves with different symmetry properties may have the same area under the curve. Here, we characterize the symmetry properties of bi-Normal and  bi-gamma ROC curves in terms of the Kullback-Leibler divergences (KLDs) between the case and control distributions of risk scores. The KLDs describe the known symmetry properties of bi-Normal ROC curves, and newly characterize the symmetry properties of constant-shape and constant-scale bi-gamma ROC curves. 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