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Skin colour and vitamin D: An update.

Experimental dermatology - 1 Sept 2020

Hanel Andrea, Carlberg Carsten

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Homo sapiens evolved in East Africa and had dark skin, hair, and eyes, in order to protect against deleterious consequences of intensive UV radiation at equatorial latitudes. Intensive skin pigmentation was thought to bear the risk of inefficient vitamin D3 synthesis in the skin. This initiated the hypothesis that within the past 75 000 years, in which humans migrated to higher latitudes in Asia and Europe, the...

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PMID: 32621306
DOI: 10.1111/exd.14142

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