{"id":55357,"date":"2017-12-05T00:44:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T00:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55357"},"modified":"2017-12-05T00:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T00:44:03","slug":"africa-has-the-greatest-amount-of-phenotypic-variability-in-skin-color-and-yet-its-been-underrepresented-in-large-scale-endeavors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55357","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAfrica has the greatest amount of phenotypic variability in skin color, and yet it\u2019s been underrepresented in large scale endeavors.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa<\/a> has the greatest amount of phenotypic variability in skin color, and yet it\u2019s been underrepresented in large scale endeavors,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/aliciarmartin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alicia Martin<\/a>, a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broad Institute<\/a> member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/bios\/mark-daly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Daly<\/a>. \u201cThere are some genes that are known to contribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skin pigmentation<\/a>, but by and large there are many more new genes that have not been discovered.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David Cameron, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skin pigmentation is far more genetically complex than previously thought<\/a>,\u201d <em>Broad Institute<\/em>, November 30, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/skin-pigmentation-far-more-genetically-complex-previously-thought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/skin-pigmentation-far-more-genetically-complex-previously-thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfrica has the greatest amount of phenotypic variability in skin color, and yet it\u2019s been underrepresented in large scale endeavors,\u201d said Alicia Martin, a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of Broad Institute member Mark Daly. \u201cThere are some genes that are known to contribute to skin pigmentation, but by and large there are many more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27753,27734,27763,11787,27761,27745],"class_list":["post-55357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-alicia-martin","tag-alicia-r-martin","tag-broad-institute","tag-david-cameron","tag-mark-daly","tag-mark-j-daly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55358,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55357\/revisions\/55358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}