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What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: There is a large range of human skin color, yet we know very little about the underlying genetic architecture. Is the number of skin color genes close to five, 50, or 500?

Source: PLoS Biology

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000027

Author: Gregory S Barsh

Institutions: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University

Language: English

Topic: melanin and skin pigmentation

Subfield: Cell Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $5,500

OpenAlex ID: W2067783184

FWCI: 1.51

Cites: 36

Cited by: 170

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