Pleiotropic effects of the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene on human pigmentation

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2531-2537

  Flanagan, Niamh ^a   Healy, Eugene ^a,b   Ray, Amanda ^a   Philips, Sion ^a   Todd, Carole ^a   Jackson, Ian J ^c   Birch Machin, Mark A ^a   Rees, Jonathan L ^a,d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR COLOR; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PENETRANCE; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0034641860     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.17.2531     Document Type: Article

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