Genetic evidence for the convergent evolution of light skin in Europeans and East Asians.

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Published in Mol Biol Evol on December 20, 2006

Authors

Heather L Norton1, Rick A Kittles, Esteban Parra, Paul McKeigue, Xianyun Mao, Keith Cheng, Victor A Canfield, Daniel G Bradley, Brian McEvoy, Mark D Shriver

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA. hnorton@email.arizona.edu

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