New genes involved in human eye color identified

Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Three new genetic loci have been identified with involvement in subtle and quantitative variation of human eye colour. The study, led by Manfred Kayser of the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is published May 6 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.

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