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Model-based prediction of human hair color using DNA variants.
Human genetics - 1 Apr 2011
Branicki Wojciech, Liu Fan, van Duijn Kate, Draus-Barini Jolanta, Pośpiech Ewelina, Walsh Susan, Kupiec Tomasz, Wojas-Pelc Anna, Kayser Manfred
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Predicting complex human phenotypes from genotypes is the central concept of widely advocated personalized medicine, but so far has rarely led to high accuracies limiting practical applications. One notable exception, although less relevant for medical but important for forensic purposes, is human eye color, for which it has been recently demonstrated that highly accurate prediction is feasible from a small...
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