A genome-wide association study identifies novel alleles associated with hair color and skin pigmentation.

A genome-wide association study identifies novel alleles associated with hair color and skin pigmentation.

We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study of natural hair color in more than 10,000 men and women of European ancestry from the United States and Australia. An initial analysis of 528,173 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyped on 2,287 women identified IRF4 and SLC24A4 as lo...

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Main Authors: Jiali Han, Peter Kraft, Hongmei Nan, Qun Guo, Constance Chen, Abrar Qureshi, Susan E Hankinson, Frank B Hu, David L Duffy, Zhen Zhen Zhao, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, Nicholas K Hayward, Gilles Thomas, Robert N Hoover, Stephen Chanock, David J Hunter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2367449?pdf=render

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