What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color?
Open Access
- 13 October 2003
- journal article
- unsolved mystery
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 1 (1), e27
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0000027
Abstract
There is a large range of human skin color, yet we know very little about the underlying genetic architecture. Is the number of skin color genes close to five, 50, or 500?Keywords
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