I don’t usually blog review articles.  However, this one is a thing of beauty - and that’s not a phrase I use lightly.   If there is one paper you read this month, it should be this one…

In brief:  3D maps of faces are used to generate “average faces”.  So far, so good.  Then, 3D maps of faces of people with certain syndromic diagnoses are used to generate “average syndrome faces”.  Then, and here’s the really good bit, software is used to morph between the two.  The images here are presented as gif files which take a short while to load, but when they do you can watch them cycle from normal to syndrome and back again; it is simply amazing to see the features we understand from these conditions emerging so effectively.  I’ll certainly be using these images as teaching tools.  The paper is here.  The images are here.

Here’s an example, cycling from Normal to William Syndrome: