Approaches to understanding adaptations of skin color variation by detecting gene-environment interactions

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 987-991

  Anno, Sumiko ^a   Ohshima, Kazuhiko ^b   Abe, Takashi ^b  

^a SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGAHAMA INSTITUTE OF BIO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adaptation; environmental association rules; gene environment interactions; genetic evolutionary history; natural selection; skin color variation; spatial data mining; UV radiation levels

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DATA MINING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; NATURAL SELECTION; REVIEW; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 78649262352     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erm.10.90     Document Type: Review

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