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Human skin and eye color: putting the pieces together
Cape Verde is an archipelago located off the West African coast that was found uninhabited by the Portuguese in the middle of the 15th century. Its unique settlement process gave rise to extensive genetic mixing between individuals of European and West African origin, reflected in the broad spectrum of morphologic variation observed today. In this issue, Beleza and colleagues use these unique properties of Cape Verde to study the genetic basis of skin and eye color variation in human populations.
Image Credit: Sandra Beleza and Sophie I. Candille
Citation: (2013) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 9(3) March 2013. PLoS Genet 9(3): ev09.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v09.i03
Published: March 28, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Beleza. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Cape Verde is an archipelago located off the West African coast that was found uninhabited by the Portuguese in the middle of the 15th century. Its unique settlement process gave rise to extensive genetic mixing between individuals of European and West African origin, reflected in the broad spectrum of morphologic variation observed today. In this issue, Beleza and colleagues use these unique properties of Cape Verde to study the genetic basis of skin and eye color variation in human populations.
Image Credit: Sandra Beleza and Sophie I. Candille