Rethinking human pigmentation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8320890 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice M Brues (University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 387-391 |
| Publication date | 1975-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330430320 |
| PMID | 1211433 |
| OpenAlex | W2076201458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
Though pigmentation has been of interest to anthropologists for a long time, its inheritance, and particularly the reasons for the incomplete correlation of skin, hair and eye, is poorly understood. It is suggested that this is largely due to a lack of genetically plausible hypotheses. Taking into account racial and individual variation in pigment traits, and knowledge of pigmentation in other mammals, a minimum set of genetic factors for pigmentation in man is suggested. These include: (1) a set of polygenes affecting skin color only, (2) one locus for depigmentation of the eye, not affecting skin or hair, (3) one pleiotropic gene for reduction of pigment at all sites, and (4) one or more loci with multiple all eles producing blondness or rufosity of the hair in symmetrical patterns over the body
Biology · Depigmentation · Evolutionary biology · Eye color · Gene · Locus (genetics) · Melanin · Polygene · Quantitative trait locus · Skin color · Genetics · melanin and skin pigmentation
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2004 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |