How Genes Determine Our Facial Features
We often see similar facial appearances of family members in photo albums, observing how genes determine certain distinctive features in our bodies.
In-depth genetic knowledge and how our DNA is linked to facial appearance is a relatively new accomplishment by geneticists. 130 chromosomal regions which are associated with our facial shapes and features have been identified, in a comprehensive process involving scanning the DNA of 8000 participants.
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