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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihoods.

Silvia Perretti, Patrícia Santos, Maria Teresa Vizzari, Enrico Tassani, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto, Guido Barbujani

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Silvia Perretti *Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8894-1221
Patrícia Santos *Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy.
Maria Teresa VizzariDepartment of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy.
Enrico TassaniDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Prevention, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy.ORCID 0009-0000-8047-4115
Andrea BenazzoDepartment of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3434-2979
Silvia GhirottoDepartment of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2522-9277
Guido BarbujaniDepartment of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7854-6669

Funding

Italian Ministry of University (MUR) PRIN 2020 2020HJXCK9Italian Ministry of University (MUR) PRIN 2020 2020TACEZRItalian Ministry of University (PRIN) 2022-PNRR P20228M8ZN
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light eyes, hair, and skins probably evolved several times as

Indexed as

DNA, AncientHair ColorPigmentationSkin PigmentationEye ColorGenotypeHumansLikelihood FunctionsDNA, Ancientancient DNAgenotype likelihoodhuman evolutionphenotype inferencepigmentation

Identifiers

PMID40663601
PMCPMC12304992

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