Article
Global skin colour prediction from DNA.
Human genetics - 1 Jul 2017
Walsh Susan, Chaitanya Lakshmi, Breslin Krystal, Muralidharan Charanya, Bronikowska Agnieszka, Pospiech Ewelina, Koller Julia, Kovatsi Leda, Wollstein Andreas, Branicki Wojciech, Liu Fan, Kayser Manfred
Abstract excerpt
Human skin colour is highly heritable and externally visible with relevance in medical, forensic, and anthropological genetics. Although eye and hair colour can already be predicted with high accuracies from small sets of carefully selected DNA markers, knowledge about the genetic predictability of skin colour is limited. Here, we investigate the skin colour predictive value of 77 single-nucleotide polymorphisms...
Topics
- Black People
- DNA
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Genotyping Techniques
- Hair Color
- Humans
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Statistical
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide