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Genetics of hair and skin color.

Annual review of genetics - 1 Jan 2003

Rees Jonathan L

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Differences in skin and hair color are principally genetically determined and are due to variation in the amount, type, and packaging of melanin polymers produced by melanocytes secreted into keratinocytes. Pigmentary phenotype is genetically complex and at a physiological level complicated. Gene...

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PMID: 14616056
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.143233

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