SHEP

Last updated on: 21.06.2022

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SHEP is the acronym for "Skin/hair/eye pigmentation" and refers to a classification system that refers to the genetically detectable and known polymorphisms in the genes that have been shown to (co-)determine the pigmentation system of skin, hair and iris. Currently, different pigmentation phenotypes associated with variations in different genes have been described with SHEP1-SHEP11.

S. under "Skin/Hair/Iris Pigmentations and Gene Variants".

Last updated on: 21.06.2022