Eye colour: Portals into pigmentation genes and ancestry

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 327-332

  Sturm, Richard A ^a   Frudakis, Tony N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DNAPrint Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1;

ALLELE; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME 15; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE COLOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UVEA;

NEMOPHILA; PSEUDOMUGILIDAE;

EID: 3242733252     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.06.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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