What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?
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What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?
Diversity of human appearance and form has intrigued biologists for centuries, but nearly 100 years after the term “genetics’’ was coined by William Bateson in 1906, the genes that underlie this diversity are an unsolved mystery. One of the most obvious phenotypes that distinguish members of our species, differences in skin pigmentation, is also one of the most enigmatic. There is a tremendous ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000027