Comprehensive candidate gene study highlights UGT1A and BNC2 as new genes determining continuous skin color variation in Europeans

Human Genetics

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-158

  Jacobs, Leonie C ^a   Wollstein, Andreas ^a,b   Lao, Oscar ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Klaver, Caroline C ^a   Uitterlinden, André G ^a   Nijsten, Tamar ^a   Kayser, Manfred ^a   Liu, Fan ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASONUCLIN 2; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A1; HECT AND RLD DOMAIN CONTAINING E3 UBIQUTITIN PROTEIN LIGASE 2; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OCULOCUATBEOUS ALBINISM II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BILIRUBIN URIDINE DIPHOSPHOGLUCURONOSYL TRANSFERASE 1A1; BILIRUBIN URIDINE-DIPHOSPHOGLUCURONOSYL TRANSFERASE 1A1; BNC2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN COLOR; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS;

AGED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874778235     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-012-1232-9     Document Type: Article

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