Zinc finger protein basonuclin-2 is a
protein that in humans is encoded by the BNC2gene.[5][6]
BNC2 has recently been shown to influence skin pigmentation levels in Europeans.[7] Genomic region spanning the BNC2 gene has 60%
Neanderthal DNA sequence.[8]
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