A genome-wide association scan in admixed Latin Americans identifies loci influencing facial and scalp hair features

A genome-wide association scan in admixed Latin Americans identifies loci influencing facial and scalp hair features

By examining Latin American individuals of mixed European, Native American and African ancestry, Adhikari et al. identify novel loci influencing various features of facial and scalp hair. The study also provides experimental evidence that one of the implicated genes (PRSS53) is expressed in the hair...

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Main Authors: Kaustubh Adhikari, Tania Fontanil, Santiago Cal, Javier Mendoza-Revilla, Macarena Fuentes-Guajardo, Juan-Camilo Chacón-Duque, Farah Al-Saadi, Jeanette A. Johansson, Mirsha Quinto-Sanchez, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Claudia Jaramillo, William Arias, Rodrigo Barquera Lozano, Gastón Macín Pérez, Jorge Gómez-Valdés, Hugo Villamil-Ramírez, Tábita Hunemeier, Virginia Ramallo, Caio C. Silva de Cerqueira, Malena Hurtado, Valeria Villegas, Vanessa Granja, Carla Gallo, Giovanni Poletti, Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, Francisco M. Salzano, Maria-Cátira Bortolini, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Francisco Rothhammer, Gabriel Bedoya, Rolando Gonzalez-José, Denis Headon, Carlos López-Otín, Desmond J. Tobin, David Balding, Andrés Ruiz-Linares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10815

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