Normal allele: GG
A variant of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor gene responsible for a significant proportion of the risk of malignant melanoma of the skin
Polymorphism rs1805005 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
9302268 Characterization of melanocyte stimulating hormone receptor variant alleles in twins with red hair.
17616515 Receptor function, dominant negative activity and phenotype correlations for MC1R variant alleles.
17999355 A genomewide association study of skin pigmentation in a South Asian population.
19585506 Melanocortin receptor 1 variants and melanoma risk: a study of 2 European populations.
20042077 Genetic determinants of hair and eye colours in the Scottish and Danish populations.
20158590 Predicting phenotype from genotype: normal pigmentation.
21197618 Model-based prediction of human hair color using DNA variants.
22277159 Implications for health and disease in the genetic signature of the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
22629401 Evaluation of genetic markers as instruments for Mendelian randomization studies on vitamin D.
26547235 Crowdsourced direct-to-consumer genomic analysis of a family quartet.
30657907 A study in scarlet: MC1R as the main predictor of red hair and exemplar of the flip-flop effect.