This Week in Genome Research

Jan 11, 2012

In a paper published online in advance in Genome Research this week, researchers at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam show that the human pigmentation-associated SNP HERC2 rs12913832 functions as an enhancer, regulating OCA2 transcription.

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