When Genetics Determines Your Ability to See

"Jasmine Carrero has big doelike eyes, an almond-shaped face and a willowy frame that she calls boyish." So goes a post in the New York Times. "She also has Stickler syndrome, a group of genetic disorders whose hallmarks are these elongated features; it is responsible not just for the elegant tapering fingers possessed by nearly everyone in her family, but also for the family’s history of blindness." Read more.