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Skin Color Variation in Orang Asli Tribes of Peninsular Malaysia

13 Aug 2012

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Pigmentation is a readily scorable and quantitative human phenotype, making it an excellent model for studying multifactorial traits and diseases. Convergent human evolution from the ancestral state, darker skin, towards lighter skin colors involved divergent genetic mechanisms in people of European vs. East Asian ancestry. It is striking that the European mechanisms result in a 10-20-fold increase in skin cancer...

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PMID: 22912732
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042752

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