Genetic loci associated with skin pigmentation in African Americans and their effects on vitamin D deficiency

• Ken Batai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0317-1118

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• Zuxi Cui,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3962-7711

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• Amit Arora,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Ebony Shah-Williams,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana United States of America

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• Wenndy Hernandez,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Maria Ruden,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8931-3879

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• Courtney M. P. Hollowell,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9152-4106

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• Stanley E. Hooker,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Health Equities, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8680-4856

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• Madhavi Bathina,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Health Equities, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

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• Adam B. Murphy,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9977-3473

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• Carolina Bonilla,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9972-6383

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• Rick A. Kittles

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rkittles@coh.org

  Affiliation Division of Health Equities, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5004-4437

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