Sentences with phrase «lighter skin color»

The bumps may be red, especially in babies with light skin color.
Genetic variants fitting that description include those coding for lighter skin coloring, resistance to diseases such as malaria, and metabolic changes related to the digestion of novel foods.
Since the skin color of the Senoi is darker than Northeast Asians, researchers will be able to focus on finding the primary genetic mutation of light skin color in Asians without seeing further skin lightening mutations.
Black is the original or «normal» skin color for humans — lighter skin colors evolved in the last few tens of thousands of years as populations adapted to higher latitudes.
One evolutionary driver may have been Britain's gloomy skies: Genes for fair hair also cause lighter skin color, which allows the body to make more vitamin D in conditions of scarce sunlight.
«It's difficult to know what happened 10,000 years ago,» Troelsen says, but blue eyes may be linked with other traits — such as light skin color — that came in handy for early northern Europeans.
This color ideally suits very light skin color with light blond or red hair, as well as light black, caramel or very dark skin with dark brown or black hair.
In the current study, two of the amino acid differences that Cheng has shown in prior studies to contribute to light skin color in humans prevented the zebrafish color from darkening.
While East Asians — Chinese, Japanese and Korean — also are light skinned, these European alleles are not present, suggesting that while both groups» lighter skin color evolved to allow for better creation of vitamin D in northern climates, they did so in a different way.
Nail polishes in delicate shades — are suitable for ladies with light skin color: pink, blue, cream, pure white.
Jesus was jewish so he was assumed to have lighter skin color.
Personally, I would wear the light skin colored hose.
«We have also found links to light skin color and increased bone density,» explains Prof. Markus Nöthen, Director of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Bonn.
The lighter skin color seen in Europeans, for instance, is due almost entirely to a single gene, he says.
While the genetics of skin color is largely unknown, past research using zebrafish by Penn State College of Medicine's Keith Cheng, M.D., Ph.D., identified the gene in Europeans that differs from West Africans and contributes to a lighter skin color.
All instances of a gene mutation that contributes to light skin color in Europeans came from the same chromosome of one person who most likely lived at least 10,000 years ago, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
The lighter your skin color, the less natural protection you have against UV rays, Dr. Chon says.
I was frequently teased when I was younger because of my very blonde hair and light skin color.
I have medium - light skin color and this gives me just the right amount of color to my face so I don't look pale or washed out, yet not so bronze I look like I have a tan face and pale body.
It's all relevant because your light skin coloring will only take on a «light» tan as opposed to the deep tan on someone with a darker skin.
It matched my light skin color.
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