Does your face reveal what’s in your heart? It might – even more than you know. Take, for instance, a common group of birth defects – forms of a disorder called DiGeorge syndrome. Around one in 4000 is born with this syndrome, which arises from a deletion of a short segment of chromosome 22. Among other problems, this deletion nearly always involves deformations in both the face and the heart.
Sculpture: Igor Mitoraj
The Institute’s Prof. Eldad Tzahor had already shown that face and heart go together: Very early on in the developing embryo, the progenitor cells that will become heart…
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