Diversity of skin and hair color in humans is controlled by the levels at which a major albinism gene, OCA2, undergoes exon skipping – according to new research
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Article title: From paleness to albinism: Contribution of OCA2 exon 10 skipping to hypopigmentation
Author countries: France, United Kingdom
Funding: Genespoir, the French albinism association to SJ; the French National Research Agency / Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-21-CE17-0041-01 to BA); the Wellcome Trust (224643/Z/21/Z to P.I.S.); the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Lecturer Programme (CL-2017-06-001 to P.I.S.); the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR 203308 to P.I.S.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS Genetics
Method of Research
Experimental study
Subject of Research
Cells
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