Melanocortin-1-receptor gene and sun sensitivity in individuals without red hair

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Volumn 355, Issue 9209, 2000, Pages 1072-1073

  Healy, Eugene ^a,b   Flannagan, Niamh ^a   Ray, Amanda ^a   Todd, Carole ^a   Jackson, Ian J ^d   Matthews, John N S ^a   Birch Machin, Mark A ^a   Rees, Jonathan L ^a,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR COLOR; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNBURN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034712537     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02042-0     Document Type: Article

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