Neonatal phototherapy (NNPT), a noninvasive, easily available therapy, has been widely
used for the treatment of neonatal jaundice for more than half a century. Its efficiency in …

Background: In the world scientific tradition, skin color is the primary physical characteristic
used to divide humans into groups. Human skin has a wide range of tones and colors, which …

Skin pigmentation is one of the most variable phenotypic traits in humans. A non-
synonymous substitution (rs1426654) in the third exon of SLC24A5 accounts for lighter skin …

Background Currently, there is very limited knowledge about the genes involved in normal
pigmentation variation in East Asian populations. We carried out a genome-wide scan of …

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour.
The'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the …

Archaeological indicators of cognitively modern behaviour become increasingly prevalent
during the African Middle Stone Age (MSA). Although the exploitation of ochre is viewed as …

Vitamin D is a molecule displaying an important physiological impact. Average human diet is
neither rich in vitamin D2 (of plant origin) nor in vitamin D3 (of animal origin). Therefore …

Few things are as interesting to us as our own bodies and, by extension, our own identities.
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between the body …

Cutaneous phototype is considered mainly related to cutaneous pigmentation and to the
eumelanin/pheomelanin ratio, which is mostly genetically determined by the melanocortin 1 …

Proteins are one of the preferential targets of the photosensitized damaging effects of
ultraviolet (UV) radiation on biological system. Pterins belong to a family of heterocyclic …