An Unexpectedly Complex Architecture for Skin Pigmentation in Africans

Cell

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1340-1353.e14

  Martin, Alicia R ^a,b,c   Lin, Meng ^d   Granka, Julie M ^a,i   Myrick, Justin W ^d   Liu, Xiaomin ^e   Sockell, Alexandra ^a   Atkinson, Elizabeth G ^d   Werely, Cedric J ^f   Möller, Marlo ^f   Sandhu, Manjinder S ^g   Kingsley, David M ^a   Hoal, Eileen G ^f   Liu, Xiao ^e   Daly, Mark J ^b,c   Feldman, Marcus W ^a   Gignoux, Christopher R ^a,h   Bustamante, Carlos D ^a   Henn, Brenna M ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ Ancestrycom DNA LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; heritability; human evolution; pigmentation; population genetics

Indexed keywords

BRM PROTEIN; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; KHOISAN; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SLC24A5 GENE; SMARCA2 GENE; SNX13 GENE; SOUTHERN AFRICAN; TYRP1 GENE; VLDLR GENE; AFRICA; BLACK PERSON; GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 85036538923     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.11.015     Document Type: Article

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