Genetics of skin color variation in Europeans: genome-wide association studies with functional follow-up

Human Genetics

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 823-835

  Liu, Fan ^a   Visser, Mijke ^a   Duffy, David L ^b   Hysi, Pirro G ^c   Jacobs, Leonie C ^a   Lao, Oscar ^a,g   Zhong, Kaiyin ^a   Walsh, Susan ^a,d   Chaitanya, Lakshmi ^a   Wollstein, Andreas ^a,e   Zhu, Gu ^b   Montgomery, Grant W ^b   Henders, Anjali K ^b   Mangino, Massimo ^c   Glass, Daniel ^c   Bataille, Veronique ^c   Sturm, Richard A ^f   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   van IJcken, Wilfred F J ^a   Uitterlinden, André G ^a   Palstra, Robert Jan T S ^a   Spector, Timothy D ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^b   Nijsten, Tamar E C ^a   Kayser, Manfred ^a   more..

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HERC2 PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; MC1R PROTEIN; OCA2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AGOUTI PROTEIN; ASIP PROTEIN, HUMAN; CARRIER PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HERC2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-4; SLC45A2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 20Q; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GREAT BRITAIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84937519781     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-015-1559-0     Document Type: Article

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