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How does one draw a face from DNA? Like if I took the the Denisovan genome and randomly mutated a small fraction of nucleotides and asked how its face changed,
by j7ake 6y ago
How does one draw a face from DNA? Like if I took the the Denisovan genome and randomly mutated a small fraction of nucleotides and asked how its face changed, what would be the answer?
- chmod775 6y agoWe know how certain things in DNA of humans alive today map to features, measurements, etc. Finding some bones/skulls also helps a lot. It's probably not that accurate though, like you would be able to tell what Denisovans looked like generally, but not what a Denisovan looked like with any accuracy. For modern human individuals it's pretty limited to 'obvious' traits like eye color, hair color, and skin color. There was some projects that tried to chart beyond that, but the results are just... ok: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/38/10166 https://www.pnas.org/content/114/38/10166 You might be able to pick someone out of a hundred with that (check Fig. 2 for an example).