article_snippet.sent: The researchers found five genes associated with changes in diet, body size and skin pigmentation that underwent natural selection in the past 8,000 years.
article_snippet.sent: Two of five genes associated with changes in diet, body size and skin pigmentation that underwent natural selection in the past 8,000 years were associated with producing light skin - SLC24A5
article_snippet.sent: five genes associated with changes in diet, body size and skin pigmentation that underwent natural selection in the past 8,000 years found that the remains of early hunter gatherers who lived in Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary around 8,500 years ago, five genes associated with changes in diet, body size and skin pigmentation that underwent natural selection in the past 8,000 years lacked these key gene variants.
article_snippet.sent: However, in the remains of hunter gatherers that had lived in Motala 7,700 years ago, five genes associated with changes in diet, body size and skin pigmentation that underwent natural selection in the past 8,000 years carried both variants of SLC24A5
article_snippet.sent: and SLC45A2 that produced lighter skin.
article_snippet.sent: Surprisingly five genes associated with changes in diet, body size and skin pigmentation that underwent natural selection in the past 8,000 years found a fourth set of genes in the DNA from these people suggests these people may actually have been related to people living in East Asia at the time.
article_snippet.sent: Around 5,800 years ago the gene variant for SLC45A1
highlights_snippet.sent: Genomes of 83 people found 5 genes linked with diet and skin changes .