They affect skin colour in modern Eurasians. Other genes like MC1R, TYRP1, and OCA2 affect that of East Asians. And all of them show signals of natural selection.

Skin pigmentation is a central element of most discussions on 'race' and genetics. Research on the genetic basis of population variation in this phenotype, which is important in mediating both ...

Our skin color is the result of many, many different genes which work together in different combinations to produce different colors of skin. Many of those genes are shared across racial, cultural ...

The genetic determination of human skin colour is one of biology's enduring mysteries. Alterations in some of these genes are associated with disorders such as albinism, which causes very light skin, ...

Previous studies had revealed some genes behind melanocyte maturation and melanin production, but only enough to explain between 23% and 35% of the variation in human skin color, Wysocka and her ...

The skin, hair and eye color of more than eight billion humans is determined by the light-absorbing pigment known as ... Their research has identified 135 new genes associated with pigmentation.

Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have ...

When a baby is born, they may have red, purple, yellow, or blue skin. Skin color variations in babies do not usually signify an underlying condition, but some skin colors in babies can be the ...

Your skin color may influence how safe and effective a given drug is for you, a new analysis suggests. In a recent think piece, published Oct. 9 in the journal Human Genomics, ...