Human pigmentation genes: Identification, structure and consequences of polymorphic variation

Gene

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 49-62

  Sturm, Richard A ^a   Teasdale, Rohan D ^a   Box, Neil F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

MC1R; Melanin; Melanocyte; P gene; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEM; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; SILVER PROTEIN; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 2;

ALLELE; COLOR; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MATURATION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOSOME; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; PH; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN; STIMULATION;

GENES; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOSOMES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035904403     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00694-1     Document Type: Review

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