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Lemonhead
03-12-2014, 09:37 PM
What are the SNPs for Hair Color, Eye Color, and Skin Color?
Damiăo de Góis
03-12-2014, 09:41 PM
Only a few have been identified. Here are 3:

http://bga101.blogspot.pt/2011/10/pigmentation-genetics-of-europeans.html
Argang
03-12-2014, 10:15 PM
Here's a map for the HERC2 gene in Eurogenes samples. Russian dots in the Caucasus are Ossetians and Chechens, and the four others are North Russians, West Russians, Erzya (peak frequency) and Chuvash (easternmost).
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7621/rs12913832.jpg

Edit. wrong map, fixed. Note that there are more genes than just this one that have an effect.

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/5061/rs12896399.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6356/rs1667394.jpg