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. 2018 Nov 14;10(11):1759.
doi: 10.3390/nu10111759.

Reply: "Comment on: The Vitamin D⁻Folate Hypothesis as an Evolutionary Model for Skin Pigmentation: An Update and Integration of Current Ideas, Nutrients 2018, 10, 554"

Patrice Jones  1 , Mark Lucock  2 , Martin Veysey  3 , Emma Beckett  4   5
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Reply: "Comment on: The Vitamin D⁻Folate Hypothesis as an Evolutionary Model for Skin Pigmentation: An Update and Integration of Current Ideas, Nutrients 2018, 10, 554"

Patrice Jones et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

We thank Elias and Williams for their interest in our review [...].

Keywords: folate; skin pigmentation; vitamin D; vitamin D-folate hypothesis.

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