Sun sensitivity in 5 US ethnoracial groups

Cutis

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Galindo, Gabriel R ^a   Mayer, Joni A ^a   Slymen, Donald ^a   Almaguer, Delshad D ^a   Clapp, Elizabeth ^a   Pichon, Latrice C ^a   Hoerster, Katherine ^a   Elder, John P ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RACE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; SUNBURN; SUNLIGHT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN; SUNBURN; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 34547813084     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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