Family

Chuy is not the only one in his family suffering from the condition. The phenomenon started with Chuy’s great-grandmother, who was the first of the family to exhibit the traits of hypertrichosis, which had never been seen before in her family. Now a dominant gene in the bloodline, five subsequent generations of Chuy’s great-grandmother’s offspring have been born with ‘werewolf syndrome’. Babies born into the family arrive with hair already grown on their faces.