"Everyone is special in their own special way. We all have things that make us who we are, and some people are born with special features. Some people have interesting birthmarks or one-of-a-kind eye colors due to their unique genes. We've discovered some really fascinating cases, and they might catch your eye. No matter how unique someone is, everyone is lovely. Keep reading to see these amazing rare genetic traits."
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People Often Ask About Similar Patch to Sweeney Todd, but It's Poliosis.The hair follicles stop growing with color because the melanin is not being produced in these areas.
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"This kiddo's got eyes like stunning blue waves! He's got something called Waardenburg syndrome, which is super rare, like 1 in 40,000 people rare!"
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This boy must be very loved because he was born with a heart-shaped birthmark. Many people have birthmarks, and they are very common.
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Heterochromia is when a person is born with two different colored eyes. Many people find this look to be quirky and people will use colored contacts to trick people into thinking they have heterochromia.
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5 Giantism
This is one of the rarest genetic mutations, and it is called giantism. It causes people to be exceptionally tall like Elisany da Cruz Silva who is 6'9". She lives a normal life, but giantism can cause serious illness and early death in some cases.
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This is a different type of heterochromia. It is known as sectoral heterochromia which causes the iris to have different colors in one eye.
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You might think this little girl has a bad case of bed head, but it is actually a genetic condition. There are only 100 people in the world who have this condition.
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Sarah McDaniel is already an attractive person with beautiful looks, and there is another thing that elevates her beauty. Yes, it is her heterochromia, a rare genetic condition in which a person's irises take on different colors.
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Nastya Zhidkova is known for her unique coloring and striking eyes. Known by her alias Kiker Chan, she has a huge list of loyal followers who absolutely love her futuristic and minimalist photographs. Her paleness is due to albinism.
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Red hair is an uncommon trait, to begin with, and it is even rarer for people of African descent. It is caused by a mutation in the MC1R gene that is inherited from parents and grandparents.
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Winnie Harlow is a well-known model who got her start on America's Next Top Model for her unique look. She has vitiligo, which causes the hair, skin, and nails to lose pigmentation.
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His eyes look like lightning struck against a dark sky. He has albinism, which is the absence of pigmentation in the hair, skin, and eyes.
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This woman has vitiligo on half her face like the man seen earlier in the list. It has changed the hair color on half of her face.
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This man has a unique ring of gold in his iris cause by an imbalance of melanin in his eye. High levels of melanin absorb less light which scatters the color differently in the iris.
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There is a trend going around where people who have brown hair dye the front section of their hair blonde. This girl does not have to pay to have her hair dyed because she naturally has a blonde part in her hair.
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This man has vitiligo that is caused by a lack of melanin that creates patches on the skin. It is rare for someone to only have it on half their face.
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He must get as many get many questions about his belly button like John Stamos. The belly button is a scar left by your umbilical cord after it is cut.
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It is not clear why this person has an extra-long thumb, but it could be caused by using a smartphone too often.
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Two thumbs up! This baby girl was born with two thumbs on one hand. It is caused by polydactyly, which leads to extra fingers to be formed.
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This person must be a fast swimmer with those webbed fingers. Webbing is caused by the condition called syndactyly
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This person has Sectoral or partial heterochromia which causes different pigmentation in the iris. This person has a brown line down the middle of their eye, and it does not affect their vision.
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Instead of extra fingers, this person has only four fingers on their hand. This occurs because of symbrachydactyly. This occurs in the womb because of a lack of blood flow to the tissue while the fingers are forming.
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This person could have coloboma which causes a hole in the structure of the eye that affects the iris. They could also have corectopia, which moved the iris and can require surgery sometimes.
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DO you think he can hear better because he has two holes in his ear? This condition is unknown, but it is common for people to have an extra hole in their ear.
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This person has one eye without eyelashes, which is most likely related to alopecia. Many people have or will develop alopecia at some point in their lives. It is an immune disease that causes spot baldness, which can be small or large.
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When you see the word phalange, you might be thinking of Pheobe from Friends' fake name, Regina Phalange. Here, we are not talking about Pheobe, but the parts of fingers.
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This man says his neck skin is so stretchy he can suck on it without using his hands. That's an interesting party trick. Some people are born with flexible skin, or it can be attributed to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which causes extra stretchy skin.
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It looks like this person's eye is being taken over by an alien. It is most likely a persistent pupillary membrane. This is a condition where the iris has a strand of tissue the crosses the pupil. It can disrupt vision if it is large enough.
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He must always be warm in the winter. This man has a giant furred mole that typically develops in the first year of life.
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This condition falls under the category of polydactyly and his toes were formed together in the womb. It can be fixed with surgery if a person wants to, or people live with it without complication.