Abstract
The color of one’s skin speaks of so many facets in one’s life. It reflects one’s physical traits, genetic components, history, nationality, and geographic roots. And by these, we mean one’s race. Scientifically, skin color depends on many factors, genetics aside: inflammation, blood hemoglobin level, carotenoids in the dermis, and increased melanin deposition. Melanin in itself is a polymer that comes as pheomelanin (red-yellow) and eumelanin (black-brown).
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Enriquez-Macarayo, M.J., Handog, E.B. (2017). The Concept of Brown Skin. In: Handog, E., Enriquez-Macarayo, M. (eds) Melasma and Vitiligo in Brown Skin. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3664-1_1
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