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Genetics of the human face: Identification of large-effect single gene variants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Jan 2018
Crouch Daniel J M, Winney Bruce, Koppen Willem P, Christmas William J, Hutnik Katarzyna, Day Tammy, Meena Devendra, Boumertit Abdelhamid, Hysi Pirro, Nessa Ayrun, Spector Tim D, Kittler Josef, Bodmer Walter F
Abstract excerpt
To discover specific variants with relatively large effects on the human face, we have devised an approach to identifying facial features with high heritability. This is based on using twin data to estimate the additive genetic value of each point on a face, as provided by a 3D camera system. In addition, we have used the ethnic difference between East Asian and European faces as a further source of face genetic...
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