The people behind the papers – Kirsty Uttley, Hannah Jüllig and Hannah Long

Deletions in EC1.45, a non-coding element upstream of SOX2, cause craniofacial developmental differences. In their study, Hannah Long and colleagues study the contribution of this enhancer to facial variation and evolution by investigating Neanderthal-specific variations. To learn more about this work, we spoke to co-first authors Kirsty Uttley and Hannah Jüllig, and the corresponding author Hannah Long, a Group Leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh, UK.