Melanocortin 1 receptor variants: Functional role and pigmentary associations

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 978-987

  Dessinioti, Clio ^a   Antoniou, Christina ^a   Katsambas, Andreas ^a   Stratigos, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EUMELANIN; ISOPROTEIN; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; PHEOMELANIN;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 80052397478     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00970.x     Document Type: Review

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