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| Title |
Contrasting signals of positive selection in genes involved in human skin-color variation from tests based on SNP scans and resequencing
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| Published in |
Investigative Genetics, December 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/2041-2223-2-24 |
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| Authors |
Johanna Maria de Gruijter, Oscar Lao, Mark Vermeulen, Yali Xue, Cara Woodwark, Christopher J Gillson, Alison J Coffey, Qasim Ayub, S Qasim Mehdi, Manfred Kayser, Chris Tyler-Smith |
| Abstract |
Numerous genome-wide scans conducted by genotyping previously ascertained single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have provided candidate signatures for positive selection in various regions of the human genome, including in genes involved in pigmentation traits. However, it is unclear how well the signatures discovered by such haplotype-based test statistics can be reproduced in tests based on full resequencing data. Four genes (oculocutaneous albinism II (OCA2), tyrosinase-related protein 1 (TYRP1), dopachrome tautomerase (DCT), and KIT ligand (KITLG)) implicated in human skin-color variation, have shown evidence for positive selection in Europeans and East Asians in previous SNP-scan data. In the current study, we resequenced 4.7 to 6.7 kb of DNA from each of these genes in Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and South Asians. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 52 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| Turkey | 1 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 47 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 27% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 10 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 44% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 4% |
| Psychology | 2 | 4% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 9 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 December 2011.
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