Diversity of skin and hair color in humans is controlled by the levels at which a major albinism gene, OCA2, undergoes exon skipping – according to new research

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Article title: From paleness to albinism: Contribution of OCA2 exon 10 skipping to hypopigmentation

Author countries : France, United Kingdom

Funding: Genespoir, the French albinism association to SJ; the French National Research Agency / Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-21-CE17-0041-01 to BA); the Wellcome Trust (224643/Z/21/Z to P.I.S.); the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Lecturer Programme (CL-2017-06-001 to P.I.S.); the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR 203308 to P.I.S.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS Genetics

10.1371/journal.pgen.1011801

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Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.