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KITLG Identifiers Aliases KITLG, FPH2, FPHH, KL-1, Kitl, MGF, SCF, SF, SHEP7, DCUA, KIT ligand, DFNA69, SLF
External IDs OMIM: 184745; MGI: 96974; HomoloGene:...
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KITLG encodes KIT ligand, a
molecule required for
melanocyte migration and
survival in the skin and hair follicle.
Keratinocytes expressing KITLG were...
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genetic paths in
European and East
Asian po****tions. Two genes, however,
KITLG and ASIP, have
mutations ****ociated with
lighter skin that have high frequencies...
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Carlberg &
Hanel 2020.
Hartz P. "KIT LIGAND;
KITLG".
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Khan R. "
KITLG makes you
white skinned?".
Discover Magazine...
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Information page 52: "The
derived allele of the
KITLG SNP rs12821256 that is ****ociated with – and
likely causal for
blond hair...
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calculated probability of
being blond-haired. The rs12821256
allele of the
KITLG gene that
controls melanocyte development and
melanin synthesis,
which is...
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described by some as "roan." In 2007, the gene
responsible for roan
cattle (
KITLG) was re****ed as a
possible cause of roan in dogs.
Neither roan nor ticking...
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analysis has
revealed that the
oldest fossil known to
carry the
derived KITLG allele,
which is
responsible for
blond hair in
modern Europeans, is a 17...
- that the
oldest fossil known to
carry the
mutated allele rs12821256 of the
KITLG gene,
which is
responsible for
blond hair in
modern Europeans, is a 17,000...
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outside of Africa. The
study distinguishes non-African
sweeps (notably
KITLG variants ****ociated with skin color), West-Eurasian
sweeps (SLC24A5) and...
