Constitutive and relative facultative skin pigmentation among Victorian children including comparison of two visual skin charts for determining constitutive melanin density

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2013

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Pezic, Angela
Ponsonby, Anne-Louise
Cameron, Fergus
Rodda, Christine
Ellis, Justine
Halliday, Jane
Siero, William
Dwyer, Terry
Lucas, Robyn

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American Society of Photobiology

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Our aim was to examine the association between ethnicity, phenotype, sun behavior and other characteristics, and constitutive and relative facultative skin pigmentation. A total of 191 participants were recruited, with a mean age of 7.6 years (SD 3.4), du

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Photochemistry and Photobiology

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