Health & Traits Publications

Farré X, Blay N et al.

Genes (Basel)

Human pigmentation has largely been associated with different disease prevalence among populations, ...

Red vs non-red hair color

Lona-Durazo F, Mendes M et al.

Commun Biol

Hair colour is a polygenic phenotype that results from differences in the amount and ratio of melani...

Blond vs. brown/black hair color

Landi MT, Bishop DT et al.

Nat Genet

Most genetic susceptibility to cutaneous melanoma remains to be discovered. Meta-analysis genome-wid...

Cutaneous malignant melanoma

Morgan MD, Pairo-Castineira E et al.

Nat Commun

Natural hair colour within European populations is a complex genetic trait. Previous work has establ...

Red vs. brown/black hair color

Hysi PG, Valdes AM et al.

Nat Genet

Hair color is one of the most recognizable visual traits in European populations and is under strong...

Hair color

Lin BD, Mbarek H et al.

Genes (Basel)

Hair color is one of the most visible and heritable traits in humans. Here, we estimated heritabilit...

Blond vs non-blond hair color

Zhang M, Song F et al.

Hum Mol Genet

Aiming to identify novel genetic loci for pigmentation and skin cancer, we conducted a series of gen...

Sunburns

Candille SI, Absher DM et al.

PLoS One

Pigmentation of the skin, hair, and eyes varies both within and between human populations. Identifyi...

Eye color

Jin Y, Birlea SA et al.

Nat Genet

We previously reported a genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifying 14 susceptibility loci for...

Vitiligo

Kenny EE, Timpson NJ et al.

Science

Naturally blond hair is rare in humans and found almost exclusively in Europe and Oceania. Here, we ...

Hair color

Eriksson N, Macpherson JM et al.

PLoS Genet

Despite the recent rapid growth in genome-wide data, much of human variation remains entirely unexpl...

Hair color

Nan H, Kraft P et al.

J Invest Dermatol

We conducted a multistage genome-wide association study (GWAS) of tanning response after exposure to...

Tanning