Odd genetic condition

in article [email hidden], Makoto Taniguchi at
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me and my mom were both born with single-folded eyelids but once we reached our teens, both of us
developed another fold in our eyelids giving us double-folded eyelids. Is this a common occurance
for asiatics? or is this an isolated trait?

My daughter who is part Japanese can do both if I understand what you mean correctly. She is
normally double fold but can by squeezing her eyes tightly shut and opening them quickly can change
the conformation of her eyelids. Japanese are generally of mongolian descent, my daughter had a
small mokuhan, and have thicker eyelids and more facial fat than caucasians. presumably to cope with
the extreme cold of north asia. Because of my influence her eyes are very different too Japanese
children. This was especially evident when she was first born. The japanese children could barely
open there eyes where as my daughter had her eyes wide open. I would think that as people age the
thick ness of the eyelids decreases and there is most certain to be variation in thickness. This
will probably effect the way the eyelid folds

Hope this has been of some help