Directional and Fluctuating decomposition and analysis of 3D Facial Discorantie: insights into disordered growth. KU Leuven
The highly variable human face is a biological billboard advertising our sex, ancestry, general health, kinship, genotype and environmental exposures. Large-scale high-dimensional phenotyping of the human face thus offers unique opportunities to unravel basic biological questions in combination with powerful genetic investigations. Emerging technologies of 3-dimensional (3D) scanning and morphometrics (the analysis of form and form variation) ...