Skin color variation in Orang Asli tribes of Peninsular Malaysia.

Skin color variation in Orang Asli tribes of Peninsular Malaysia.

Pigmentation is a readily scorable and quantitative human phenotype, making it an excellent model for studying multifactorial traits and diseases. Convergent human evolution from the ancestral state, darker skin, towards lighter skin colors involved divergent genetic mechanisms in people of European...

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Main Authors: Khai C Ang, Mee S Ngu, Katherine P Reid, Mei S Teh, Zamzuraida S Aida, Danny Xr Koh, Arthur Berg, Stephen Oppenheimer, Hood Salleh, Mahani M Clyde, Badrul M Md-Zain, Victor A Canfield, Keith C Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3418284?pdf=render

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