Variants of the melanocyte–stimulating hormone receptor gene are associated with red hair and fair skin in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 328-330

  Valverde, Paloma ^a   Healy, Eugene ^a   Jackson, Ian ^b   Rees, Jonathan L ^a   Thody, Anthony J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; INTERMEDIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNBURN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0028786945     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1195-328     Document Type: Letter

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