25 People With Amazing Genetic Traits

These people were born with unique hereditary characteristics. Check out the amazing gallery and share it with all your friends!

1. This person has inherited one thumb from each parent.

And if you look closely, you’ll notice the person on the right has a shorter thumb, due to a genetic condition called Brachydactyly type D.

2. This man has freckles only on one side of his face.

Some people have freckles on just their noses, others have them on their entire face, and this guy has them on just one side.

3. These women have the same genetic condition.

These two women aren’t related by blood, as they are sisters-in-law, but they share one unique trait. They both have Syndactyly, a genetic condition that causes fingers or toes to be fused. They even got matching tattoos to celebrate their rare genetic trait.

4. This person has tentacles under their tongue.

These ‘tongue tentacles’ are real and they’re caused by a condition called Plica Fimbriata. They are just skin growths under the tongue that don’t cause any pain or discomfort. I bet they make a great conversation starter.

5. This man has two middle fingers on each hand.

This is so cool. When he wants to give someone the middle finger, he can do it twice, using just one hand.

6. Mom and baby have the same hair birthmark.

Their trait is so unique! I think it’s great that the baby has inherited the white hair spot from her Mom.

7. This woman has "Bowie Eyes".

This condition is called “Anisocoria” and nicknamed “Bowie Eyes” due to David Bowie’s famous eyes who were unnaturally so. People who are born with this condition have one pupil that fluctuates correctly, and another one that remains fixed.

8. This little girl naturally has a hair strand of a different color.

This beautiful little princess naturally has a brown lock among her blonde hair. Women usually pay for this!

9. Like father, like son.

The interesting story behind this is that the father lost his finger by accident when he was a child. Years later, the child’s finger stopped growing right where his Dad’s finger ended. Amazing.

10. A straight line in the palm.

We have all kinds of lines in the palm of our hand, and probably that’s why palm reading got invented. But this guy would completely freak out a palm reader, as his line is straight.

11. This beauty has both albinism and heterochromia.

This absolutely gorgeous girl has two unique features. First, she has albinism, meaning she has little to no melanin in her hair, skin, and eyes. And secondly, she has heterochromia, meaning her eyes are different colors. Both traits are pretty rare, and having them both is really special.

12. The power of genetics.

This gorgeous little boy has inherited Mom’s beautiful two-colored eyes. This special trait is known as complete heterochromia, meaning one eye has two different colors.

13. This baby has real elf ears.

Some people are born with natural elf ears. They are caused by “Stahl’s ear”, a condition that gives a natural pointy shape to ears, due to additional cartilage.

14. The man was born with 6 toes on his left foot and the woman with 4 toes on her right foot.

The two people work together and have discovered that they both have an uncommon number of toes at one of their feet.

15. This man has five fingers, no thumb.

Wow, that’s a long thumb! This person’s fingers are all functional, but instead of a regular size thumb, he has a finger with three phalanges. The malformation is called triphalangeal thumb and it’s estimated that one in 25,000 people is born with it.