Sentences with phrase «genetics of hair colour»
Co-author Dr. David Hinds from 23andMe said: «While the genetics of hair colour is an interesting problem in itself, we hope that better understanding of the biology of melanin pigmentation will be applicable to studies of diseases that interact with pigmentation, such as skin cancer or vitiligo.»
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Joint lead author Professor Manfred Kayser from Erasmus MC said: «Besides substantially increasing our understanding of human pigmentation genetics in general, finding these new hair colour genes is also important for further increasing the accuracy of hair colour prediction from DNA traces in future forensic applications, which can help to find unknown perpetrators of crime.»