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ArticleScientific reports2021

Further insight into the global variability of the OCA2-HERC2 locus for human pigmentation from multiallelic markers.

Philippe Suarez, Karine Baumer, Diana Hall

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Philippe SuarezUnité de Génétique Forensique, Centre Universitaire Romand de Médecine Légale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois et Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Karine BaumerUnité de Génétique Forensique, Centre Universitaire Romand de Médecine Légale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois et Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Diana HallUnité de Génétique Forensique, Centre Universitaire Romand de Médecine Légale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois et Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Diana.Hall@chuv.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-4593-1496
University Hospital of Lausanne · CH

Funding

Swiss National Foundation N 310030_184705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The OCA2-HERC2 locus is responsible for the greatest proportion of eye color variation in humans. Numerous studies extensively described both functional SNPs and associated patterns of variation over this region. The goal of our study is to examine how these haplotype structures and allelic associations vary when highly variable markers such as microsatellites are used. Eleven microsatellites spanning 357 Kb of OCA2-HERC2 genes are analyzed in 3029 individuals from worldwide populations. We found that several markers display large differences in allele frequency (10% to 35% difference) among Europeans, East Asians and Africans. In Europe, the alleles showing increased frequency can also discriminate individuals with (IrisPlex) predicted blue and brown eyes. Distinct haplotypes are identified around the variants C and T of the functional SNP rs12913832 (associated to blue eyes), with linkage disequilibrium r

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AllelesEye ColorGenetic MarkersGenotypeGlobal HealthHaplotypesHomozygoteHumansLinkage DisequilibriumMembrane Transport ProteinsMicrosatellite RepeatsPigmentationPolymorphism, GeneticPolymorphism, Single NucleotideUbiquitin-Protein LigasesGenetic MarkersHERC2 protein, humanMembrane Transport ProteinsOCA2 protein, humanUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID34795370
PMCPMC8602267
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