La despigmentación de la piel humana es un proceso evolutivo adaptativo con repercusiones biomédicas

  1. Santos Alonso 1
  2. Arrate Sevilla 1
  3. Sonia Olaechea 1
  4. Alicia García Galdeano 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Book:
XV Reunión Nacional de Cuaternario Bizkaia Aretoa: Bilbao, 1-5 julio 2019. Libro de resúmenes

Publisher: Universidad del País Vasco = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

ISBN: 978-84-17713-16-4

Year of publication: 2019

Pages: 176-177

Congress: Reunión Nacional de Cuaternario (15. 2019. Bilbao)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

During the last stages of the quaternary period important adaptations in human evolution took place. One of them was skin depigmentation duringthe colonization of Eurasia. In this work, from genetic data we show that this process was in fact an adaptive process, favored by natural selection with the goal to synthesize vitamin D in areas of low sunlight. Nevertheless, this adaptation conveys also some risks, maybe not so relevant from an evolutionary point of view but important from the biomedical perspective.

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