"Eye Color" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Color of the iris.
| Descriptor ID |
D005127
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G14.340 G16.690.360
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| Concept/Terms |
Eye Color- Eye Color
- Color, Eye
- Colors, Eye
- Eye Colors
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Eye Color" by people in Profiles.
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Detection of human adaptation during the past 2000 years. Science. 2016 11 11; 354(6313):760-764.
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Evolutionary history inferred from the de novo assembly of a nonmodel organism, the blue-eyed black lemur. Mol Ecol. 2015 Sep; 24(17):4392-405.
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Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European. Nature. 2014 Mar 13; 507(7491):225-8.
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The convergent evolution of blue iris pigmentation in primates took distinct molecular paths. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2013 Jul; 151(3):398-407.
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Cohort effects in a genetically determined trait: eye colour among US whites. Ann Hum Biol. 2002 Nov-Dec; 29(6):657-66.
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Sperm competition between Drosophila males involves both displacement and incapacitation. Nature. 1999 Jul 29; 400(6743):449-52.