Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsFascia, the fibrous connective tissue that literally holds the body together, is one of the unsung heroes of human anatomy. The stringy, white substance – which is basically sheets of connective tissue held together with collagen – cinches together your muscles and organs so they can act as a unified whole.has an important job, which is to create a rugged surface suitable for gripping.
The condition most commonly affects the ring and middle fingers, which extend from the center of the palmar fascia, curling them back towards the palm. In severe cases, surgeryrisk factors for Dupuytren’s The study drew on genomes from 7,871 people who had Dupuytren’s and found 61 genes related to the disease, including three that had come from the Neanderthals. Of those, two stood out as the second and third most important for predicting Dupuytren’s.mated with both Neanderthals and Denisovans, another extinct species, and the evidence remains in portions of our collective DNA, with some major exceptions.