Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused by an Amino Acid Change in TYRP1

Author:

Kenny Eimear E.1,Timpson Nicholas J.2,Sikora Martin1,Yee Muh-Ching1,Moreno-Estrada Andrés1,Eng Celeste3,Huntsman Scott3,Burchard Esteban González3,Stoneking Mark4,Bustamante Carlos D.15,Myles Sean156

Affiliation:

1. Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

2. Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield Grove, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK.

3. Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

4. Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D04103 Leipzig, Germany.

5. Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

6. Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia B2N 5E3, Canada.

Abstract

Naturally blond hair in Solomon Islanders maps to a missense mutation in a gene associated with pigmentation.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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