New genes involved in human eye color identified
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 18:13
in Biology & Nature
Three new genetic loci have been identified with involvement in subtle and quantitative variation of human eye color. Previous studies on the genetics of human eye color used broadly-categorized trait information such as 'blue', 'green', and 'brown'. However, variation in eye color exists in a continuous grading from the lightest blue to the darkest brown.