Heritability and genome-wide association studies for hair color in a dutch twin family based sample

Genes

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 559-576

  Lin, Bochao Danae ^a   Mbarek, Hamdi ^a   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^a   Fedko, Iryna O ^a   Abdellaoui, Abdel ^a   De Geus, Eco J ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Hottenga, Jouke Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genome wide association study; GRM based heritability; Hair color; Twin family based heritability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLACK HAIR; BROWN HAIR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUTCHMAN; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR COLOR; HERC2 GNE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IRF4 GENE; KITLG GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; RED HAIR; SELF REPORT; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SLC24A4 GENE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TPCN2 GENE; TWINS;

EID: 84937410084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes6030559     Document Type: Article

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