Reconstruct Your Face From DNA

Have you ever been asked, as a witness, what does this suspect look like?  Your description may be quite limited in detail.  We have all seen the artist made drawings of criminals that authorities are looking for.  These drawings even change from time to time.  Well now Scientists are working to see if they can reconstruct faces from DNA.  They have had some success, according to PLOS Genetics in a publication from yesterday.  Right now crude 3D models of the person can be made from samples of their DNA.  Researchers are looking only at genes that seem to construct facial structure.  The process is far from perfect at its current state and the scientists admit that the limitations of what they can find from the DNA may prove to be non useful in the end.  But it is too early to tell.  If scientists can find a way to reconstruct the whole face this could be very useful to forensics.  However things like weight and age will still need to be determined visually.