What did the suspect look like? With the discovery of five genes involved
in facial form, perhaps one day the police won’t need eyewitnesses or
surveillance cameras – all they’d need is a little bit of DNA:
Lead author Manfred Kayser from the Erasmus University Medical Center
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, said: "These are exciting first
results that mark the beginning of the genetic understanding of human
facial morphology."Perhaps some time it will be possible to draw a phantom portrait
of a person solely from his or her DNA left behind, which provides interesting
applications such as in forensics."
Link
| The study over at PLoS
Genetics