Sometimes our DNA behaves in unexplained ways – no wonder scientists don’t know what parts of our genes are doing. This unexpected behaviour never ceases to surprise us. The heroes of our article have lived through these DNA surprises and proved that nature doesn’t know ‘ordinary’.
1. “So I have no nose job”.
2. “I was born with a scar on my eye.”
3. “My girlfriend was born with it.”
4. “I’ve only met 1 other person who can do that with both lips, you know?”
5. “My fingers all look like this.”
6. “My daughter has an adult tooth sticking out from behind her baby teeth.”
7. “I can’t bend my thumb without bending my index finger. About one in five people are like me.”
8. “My daughter and I, when we were both in sixth grade.”
9. “I was born without a pinky on my right hand.”
10. “My friend has a weird mole.”
11. “I was born with a normal thumb and a toe thumb.”
12. “His birthmark has created fantastic melir strips.”
13. “My hands are super spotty this year, last summer my hands were completely white. I wonder what it will be next year.”
14 “This is my right hand. I was born with it.”
15. “My son (left) and daughter were born 17 months apart.”
