Article
Human pigmentation genetics: the difference is only skin deep.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Sept 1998
Sturm R A, Box N F, Ramsay M
Abstract excerpt
There is no doubt that visual impressions of body form and color are important in the interactions within and between human communities. Remarkably, it is the levels of just one chemically inert and stable visual pigment known as melanin that is responsible for producing all shades of humankind....
Topics
- Albinism
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Carrier Proteins
- Chromosome Mapping
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Hair Color
- Humans
- Intramolecular Oxidoreductases
- Keratinocytes
- Male
- Melanins
- Melanocytes
- Melanosomes
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Membrane Proteins
- Membrane Transport Proteins