Human pigmentation genetics: The difference is only skin deep

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 712-721

  Sturm, Richard A ^a   Box, Neil F ^a   Ramsay, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DOPACHROME ISOMERASE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INTERMEDIN RECEPTOR; ISOMERASE; MELANIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OCA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; P PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN; TYROSINASE-RELATED PROTEIN; TYRP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TYRP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ALBINISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RACE; REVIEW; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALBINISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PIGMENTATION; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032170736     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199809)20:9<712::AID-BIES4>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Review

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