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 Jones¹, Mark Lucock², Martin Veysey³, Emma Beckett^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ School of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. patrice.jones@uon.edu.au.
² School of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. mark.lucock@newcastle.edu.au.
³ Hull-York Medical School, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. martin.veysey@hyms.ac.uk.
⁴ School of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. emma.beckett@newcastle.edu.au.
⁵ School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. emma.beckett@newcastle.edu.au.

Patrice Jones et al. Nutrients. 2018.

. 2018 Nov 14;10(11):1759.

doi: 10.3390/nu10111759.

Patrice Jones¹, Mark Lucock², Martin Veysey³, Emma Beckett^{4

5}

¹ School of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. patrice.jones@uon.edu.au.
² School of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. mark.lucock@newcastle.edu.au.
³ Hull-York Medical School, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. martin.veysey@hyms.ac.uk.
⁴ School of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. emma.beckett@newcastle.edu.au.
⁵ School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. emma.beckett@newcastle.edu.au.

Abstract

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

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

The authors declare no conflict of interet.

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