GWAS analyses for skin colour performed on a series of diverse African groups reveal new loci involved in this phenotype and, surprisingly, the presence within several African populations of the “light” allele of the SLC24A5 ...

The prediction of a person’s aspect from analysis of an anonymous DNA sample has made significant progress in the last decade. Pigmentation (eyes, hair and, more recently, skin colour) can now be determined with good ...

The combination of 281 GWAS studies for adult height leads to the identification of 12,111 SNP in 7,209 loci that together account for essentially all SNP heritability for this trait: there is no longer any significant ...