ginger gene articles
The mystery of redheads’ weird and wonderful ginger genetics is one step closer to being solved, with a new study finding that a grand total of eight separate genes are responsible for red hair. For ...
Red hair has been around a loooong time (an estimated 50,000+ years, in fact), so you’d think humanity would be pretty clued up on its weird and wonderful genetics. But much to everyone’s surprise, the ...
Most people associate red hair with pale skin, but what about those rarest of rare gingers who can tan? Nope, we’re not describing an impossible mythical creature, these tanning ginger beings actually exist. A post ...
Gingers have many a health quirk, such as their superhuman ability to generate more vitamin D and their weird over-sensitivity to heat pain, but are redheads at an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease? A link between melanoma and ...
Knowing that redheads are at higher risk of skin cancer is not a revelation. We’re pale, freckly, and extremely likely to sunburn – tell us something we don’t know. But for the first time, scientists ...
‘Secret Gingers’ are people who are carriers of the recessive MC1R gene responsible for red hair, but do not have ginger hair themselves.
There is a lot of press this week on how having the MC1R ‘ginger gene’ can make you look two years younger on average (Ginger Parrot included, we admit). But in reality, this is ever ...
Those carrying a melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R), also known as the ‘ginger gene’ responsible for red hair, could be at double the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. This is made more terrifying ...
We don’t need to tell you how beautiful freckles are – all redheads should be well aware by now. But, with freckles covering every inch of natural redheads’ bodies, it’s easy for us to take our ...
1. Your red-haired child will be the star of the nursery. When your child is born, a red hue beams from their head, and it will be magnificent! You will be constantly flattered with compliments ...
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