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Blaschko’s lines are an incredibly rare and unexplained phenomenon of human anatomy which was first presented in 1901 by German dermatologist Alfred Blaschko. Being neither a specific disease nor a predictable symptom of a disease, Blaschko’s lines are an invisible pattern included in human DNA. Many inherited and acquired diseases of the skin or mucosa manifest themselves according to these patterns, creating the visual appearance of stripes. The reason for the stripes is thought to derive…

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Blaschko’s Lines

Human skin is actually covered in stripes called Blaschko’s Lines. They cover our body from head to toe. We just can’t see them. They follow a “V” shape over the back, “S” shaped whirls over the chest and sides, and wavy shapes on the head.(1, 2)

One of the subjects developmental biologists are interested in is the development of pattern. There are the obvious externally visible patterns — the stripes of a zebra, leopard spots, the ordered ranks of your teeth, etc., etc., etc. — and in fact, just about everything about most multicellular organisms is about pattern. Without it, you’d…

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