The MC1R Gene and Youthful Looks

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1213-1220

  Liu, Fan ^a,b   Hamer, Merel A ^b   Deelen, Joris ^c   Lall, Japal S ^d   Jacobs, Leonie ^b   Van Heemst, Diana ^c   Murray, Peter G ^d   Wollstein, Andreas ^b,e   De Craen, Anton J M ^c   Uh, Hae Won ^c   Zeng, Changqing ^a   Hofman, Albert ^b   Uitterlinden, André G ^b   Houwing Duistermaat, Jeanine J ^c,f   Pardo, Luba M ^b   Beekman, Marian ^c   Slagboom, P Eline ^c   Nijsten, Tamar ^b   Kayser, Manfred ^b   Gunn, David A ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age; appearance; facial aging; GWAS; MC1R; perceived facial age; skin

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR;

AGED; AGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; SKIN AGING;

EID: 84964671844     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.008     Document Type: Article

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