On Marfan Syndrome

There can be little question man in the Turin Shroud is unnaturally tall for an ancient Jew (between 5 '11 and 6'2), something which has led pathologist Fred Zugibe to propose that Jesus of Nazareth suffered from Mafan Syndrome (Marfan Syndrome sufferers are tall and thin with elongated sculls, limbs and fingers). An alternative explanation is that the man possessed a homozygous C677T mutation of the MTHFR gene, possibly adaptive in countries where malaria is endemic, and known to cause a mild from of Homocystinuria, a condition that mimics Marfan Syndrome. The C677T mutation may also account for the elongated physiques of the Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty known as Akhenaten, and Abraham Lincoln, both believed at times to have suffered from Marfan Syndrome...