Scientists identify 15 genes that determine our facial features
The researchers looked at images of more than 2,000 test subjects their corresponding DNA.
Scientists have identified 15 genes that they believe determine some of our our facial features and seven of them have been linked to the nose.
It is already known that DNA determines what we look like and recent research has already identified the genetic markers for physical traits such as skin and eye colour.
But the researchers believe that identifying the genes related to facial features could prove helpful in other areas of science – like, for example, doctors performing facial reconstructive surgery using their patients’ DNA profile, or forensic experts sketching a suspect’s face based on DNA retrieved from a crime scene.
A team of researchers in Belgium and the US looked at a database of more than 2,000 test subjects containing 3D images of faces and the corresponding DNA profile of the people.
