Contrasting signals of positive selection in genes involved in human skin-color variation from tests based on SNP scans and resequencing

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  de Gruijter, Johanna M ^a,b   Lao, Oscar ^a   Vermeulen, Mark ^a   Xue, Yali ^c   Woodwark, Cara ^c   Gillson, Christopher J ^c   Coffey, Alison J ^c   Ayub, Qasim ^c   Mehdi, S Qasim ^d   Kayser, Manfred ^a   Tyler Smith, Chris ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS FORENSIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d CIVIL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; DNA SEQUENCE; DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KIT LIGAND GENE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM 2 GENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1 GENE;

EID: 84862182100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-2-24     Document Type: Article

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