A melanocortin 1 receptor allele suggests varying pigmentation among Neanderthals

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5855, 2007, Pages 1453-1455

  Lalueza Fox, Carles ^a   Römpler, Holger ^b,j   Caramelli, David ^c   Stäubert, Claudia ^b   Catalano, Giulio ^c,d   Hughes, David ⁱ   Rohland, Nadin ⁱ   Pilli, Elena ^c   Longo, Laura ^e   Condemi, Silvana ^f   De La Rasilla, Marco ^g   Fortea, Javier ^g   Rosas, Antonio ^h   Stoneking, Mark ⁱ   Schöneberg, Torsten ^b   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^d   Hofreiter, Michael ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^h MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; NEANDERTHAL; PIGMENT;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HAIR COLOR; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36749025107     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147417     Document Type: Article

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