Exploring signatures of positive selection in pigmentation candidate genes in populations of East Asian ancestry

Modeling Recent Human Evolution in Mice by Expression of a Selected EDAR Variant

(2013) Yana G. Kamberov et al.   CELL

rehh: an R package to detect footprints of selection in genome-wide SNP data from haplotype structure

(2012) Mathieu Gautier et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

HERC2 rs12913832 modulates human pigmentation by attenuating chromatin-loop formation between a long-range enhancer and the OCA2 promoter

(2012) M. Visser et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Comprehensive candidate gene study highlights UGT1A and BNC2 as new genes determining continuous skin color variation in Europeans

(2012) Leonie C. Jacobs et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Association of melanogenesis genes with skin color variation among Japanese females

(2012) Yuko Abe et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Association of melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MC1R) polymorphisms with skin reflectance and freckles in Japanese

(2012) Kyoko Yamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

(2012)   NATURE

Human skin pigmentation, migration and disease susceptibility

(2012) N. G. Jablonski et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Skin Color Variation in Orang Asli Tribes of Peninsular Malaysia

(2012) Khai C. Ang et al.   PLoS One

The great human expansion

(2012) B. M. Henn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused by an Amino Acid Change in TYRP1

(2012) E. E. Kenny et al.   SCIENCE

Distinguishing between Selective Sweeps from Standing Variation and from a De Novo Mutation

(2012) Benjamin M. Peter et al.   PLoS Genetics

Understanding the Evolution of Human Pigmentation: Recent Contributions from Population Genetics

(2011) Jonathan L. Rees et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Barrier requirements as the evolutionary “driver” of epidermal pigmentation in humans

(2010) Peter M. Elias et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

A powerful score test to detect positive selection in genome-wide scans

(2010) Ming Zhong et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Population differentiation as a test for selective sweeps

(2010) H. Chen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Only four genes (EDA1, EDAR, EDARADD, and WNT10A) account for 90% of hypohidrotic/anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia cases

(2010) Céline Cluzeau et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Genetics of pigmentation in skin cancer — A review

(2010) Dominique Scherer et al.   MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH

A Pax3/Dmrt2/Myf5 Regulatory Cascade Functions at the Onset of Myogenesis

(2010) Takahiko Sato et al.   PLoS Genetics

Digital Quantification of Human Eye Color Highlights Genetic Association of Three New Loci

(2010) Fan Liu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Web-Based, Participant-Driven Studies Yield Novel Genetic Associations for Common Traits

(2010) Nicholas Eriksson et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Common Variation in EDAR Is a Genetic Determinant of Shovel-Shaped Incisors

(2009) Ryosuke Kimura et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

(2009) J. K. Pickrell et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Role of Geography in Human Adaptation

(2009) Graham Coop et al.   PLoS Genetics

Three Genome-wide Association Studies and a Linkage Analysis Identify HERC2 as a Human Iris Color Gene

(2008) Manfred Kayser et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A Single SNP in an Evolutionary Conserved Region within Intron 86 of the HERC2 Gene Determines Human Blue-Brown Eye Color

(2008) Richard A. Sturm et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Analysis of Cultured Human Melanocytes Based on Polymorphisms within the SLC45A2/MATP, SLC24A5/NCKX5, and OCA2/P Loci

(2008) Anthony L. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Two newly identified genetic determinants of pigmentation in Europeans

(2008) Patrick Sulem et al.   NATURE GENETICS