Genetic disorder 'links' seven generations

  • 29/12/1997

Human physiology never crease to baffle. In a curious case of genetic disorder , over 60 persons of the same lineage in Madanayakanahalli, have "webbed" hands. Each person has more than five fingers most of them joined by skin. But the villagers see the deformity, which has manifested itself in seven generations in a row, as "God's blessing".