Solomon Islands: Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused By An Amino Acid Change In TYRP1

Solomon Islands: Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused By An Amino Acid Change In TYRP1   Eimear E. Kenny, Nicholas J. Timpson, Martin Sikora, Muh-Ching Yee, Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Celeste Eng, Scott Huntsman, Esteban González Burchard, Mark Stoneking, Carlos D. Bustamante, Sean Myles, 2012   Naturally blond hair is rare in humans and found almost exclusively in Europe and Oceania. Here, we identify an arginine-to-cysteine change at a highly conserved residue in tyrosinase-related protein 1...

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