Chenxing Liu, Myoung Keun Lee, Sahin Naqvi, Hanne Hoskens, Dongjing Liu, Julie D White, Karlijne Indencleef, Harold Matthews, Ryan J Eller, Jiarui Li, Jaaved Mohammed, Tomek Swigut, Stephen Richmond, Mange Manyama, Benedikt Hallgrímsson, Richard A Spritz, Eleanor Feingold, Mary L Marazita, Joanna Wysocka, Susan Walsh, Mark D Shriver, Peter Claes, Seth M Weinberg, John R Shaffer
Facial morphology is highly variable, both within and among human populations, and a sizable portion of this variation is attributable to genetics. Previous genome scans have revealed more than 100 genetic loci associated with different aspects of normal-range facial variation. Most of these loci have been detected in Europeans, with few studies focusing on other ancestral groups. Consequently, the degree to which facial traits share a common genetic basis across diverse sets of humans remains largely unknown...
August 2021: PLoS Genetics