Sentences with phrase «skin gene variants»

Of the darker - skin gene variants, three appear to have evolved from less pigmented variants.

Three of the darker - skin gene variants appear to have evolved from variants linked with less pigment.

Not exact matches

The genetic shift introduced variants for paler skin and lighter - colored eyes; genes for digesting lactose became common sometime later.

From the sequence data, they found gene variants indicating that the man had dark skin and eyes.

Their landmark findings will open the door to identify gene variants controlling skin microbiota and to define their link to various diseases such as skin inflammatory disorders.

New genome - sequencing research suggests white European people with two copies of variant forms of MC1R, a gene linked to pale skin and red hair, have faces that appear up to two years older than those who are the same age but don't have both copies.

We identify previously uncharacterized genes and variants associated with skin pigmentation in ethnically diverse Africans.

When population geneticist Andrea Manica and graduate student Marcos Gallego Llorente at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom analyzed the sequence, they found that the Mota man had brown eyes and dark skin, as well as three gene variants associated with adaptation to high altitudes; some peaks in the highlands reach 4500 meters, as high as the Matterhorn.

While the dark skin of some Pacific Islanders can be traced back to Africa, gene variants from Eurasia also seem to have made their way back to Africa.

She had gene variants that would have given her dark skin, brown eyes, and brown hair, for example.

The team also found variants of two neighboring genes, HERC2 and OCA2, which are associated with light skin, eyes, and hair in Europeans but arose in Africa; these variants are ancient and common in the light - skinned San people.

«Many of the gene variants that cause light skin in Europe have origins in Africa,» Tishkoff says.

A variant within the DNA repair gene XRCC3 is associated with the development of melanoma skin cancer.

deCODE discovered the first variant, a SNP called rs 401681, in its gene discovery work on basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a common form of skin cancer.

These folks carry two copies of a variant of the MC1R gene, which determines our hair and skin color.

The gene variants were linked to other signs of aging, such as thinning lips and sagging skin along the jaw line, the researchers said.