Diversity of skin and hair color in humans is controlled by the levels at which a major albinism gene, OCA2, undergoes exon skipping – according to new research

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Article title: From paleness to albinism: Contribution of OCA2 exon 10 skipping to hypopigmentation

Author countries: France, United Kingdom

Funding: Genespoir, the French albinism association to SJ; the French National Research Agency / Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-21-CE17-0041-01 to BA); the Wellcome Trust (224643/Z/21/Z to P.I.S.); the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Lecturer Programme (CL-2017-06-001 to P.I.S.); the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR 203308 to P.I.S.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.