Technical note: Quantitative measures of iris color using high resolution photographs

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-149

  Edwards, Melissa ^a   Gozdzik, Agnes ^a   Ross, Kendra ^a   Miles, Jon ^b   Parra, Esteban J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Miles Research   (United States)

Author keywords

HERC2; iris pigmentation; quantification of eye color

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; EYE COLOR; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE HERC2; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE COLOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRIS; LINEAR MODELS; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 83655161355     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21637     Document Type: Article

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