Skin colour and vitamin D: An update

A Hanel, C Carlberg - Experimental Dermatology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Homo sapiens evolved in East Africa and had dark skin, hair, and eyes, in order to protect
against deleterious consequences of intensive UV radiation at equatorial latitudes. Intensive …

Vitamin-related phenotypic adaptation to exposomal factors: The folate-vitamin D-exposome triad

M Lucock - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The biological role of two key vitamins, folic acid and vitamin D is so fundamental to life
processes, it follows that their UV sensitivity, dietary abundance (both key exposomal …

Biophysical evidence to support and extend the vitamin D‐folate hypothesis as a paradigm for the evolution of human skin pigmentation

MD Lucock, PR Jones, M Veysey… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To test the “vitamin D‐folate hypothesis for the evolution of human skin
pigmentation.” Methods Total ozone map** spectrometer (TOMS) satellite data were used …

Association the 25 (OH) vitamin D status with upper respiratory tract infections morbidity in water sports elite athletes

J Umarov, F Kerimov, A Toychiev, N Davis, S Osipova - biorxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to identify seasonal changes in total 25
(OH) vitamin D (VD) concentrations and determine its influence on acute upper respiratory …

Seasonally adjusted laboratory reference intervals to improve the performance of machine learning models for classification of cardiovascular diseases

VP Muse, D Placido, AD Haue, S Brunak - BMC Medical Informatics and …, 2024 - Springer
Background Variation in laboratory healthcare data due to seasonal changes is a widely
accepted phenomenon. Seasonal variation is generally not systematically accounted for in …

Biological anthropology in 2018: Grounded in theory, questioning contexts, embracing innovation

MA Martin - American Anthropologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biological anthropology in 2018 encapsulated what past scholars envisioned for its future: a
multidisciplinary approach to understanding human and nonhuman primate evolution and …

Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D is positively associated with folate and vitamin B12 levels in adolescents

A Rahman, A Al-Taiar, L Shaban, R Al-Sabah… - Nutrition Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Vitamin D affects the absorption of folate in vitro, and perhaps of vitamin B 12 (B 12).
However, epidemiological studies on the association of vitamin D with folate and B 12 are …

Evolution of human skin pigmentation and vitamin D

NG Jablonski - Feldman and Pike's Vitamin D, 2024 - Elsevier
Basic understanding of the evolution of human skin pigmentation has been achieved
through a synthesis of information from comparative anatomy and physiology, paleontology …

The distribution in native populations from Mexico and Central America of the C677T variant in the MTHFR gene

L Reyes, D Godfrey, LJ Ming… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To explore evolutionary hypotheses for the high frequencies of a substitution in
the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene, in Mexican and Central American …

Vitamin D3 supplementation may attenuate morphological and molecular abnormalities of the olfactory bulb in a mouse model of Down syndrome

F de Campos Gomes, IBF Santos, CM Stephani… - Tissue and Cell, 2022 - Elsevier
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) exhibit impaired olfactory function and are at a higher
risk of develo** Alzheimer's disease (AD). Olfactory dysfunction may be an early clinical …