Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation

By N. Jablonski, G. Chaplin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

698 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cell Biology, Dermatology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/27575fe1bc43fe3cbf2bdef536dea838f85c38bf

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In Cell Biology

1. N. Jablonski
2. A. Roulin
3. Abel S. Nunez
4. Graham Coop

In Dermatology

1. N. Jablonski
2. Abel S. Nunez
3. Graham Coop

Citations in the corpus

• An Unexpectedly Complex Architecture for Skin Pigmentation in Africans (2017, positive): “Researchers have hypothesized that variable exposure to ultra violet radiation (UVR) creates opposing selective forces for vitamin D production and folate protection, resulting in global pigmentation differentiation (Chaplin and Jablonski, 2009; Jablonski and Chaplin, 2010).”
• The biology of color (2017, background): “The latitudinal gradient of human skin pigmentation, for instance, reflects two clines: One emphasizes protection against high UV radiation through permanent eumelanin-based pigmentation; the other promotes absorption of UVB (waveband from 280 to 315 nm) for vitamin D photosynthesis in low or highly”