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Red hair, also known as ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 2–6% of people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.
Red or ginger hair may come in different shades, from strawberry blond to auburn. [1] With only 2% of the world's population having red hair, [ 2 ] red is the rarest natural hair-coloration. [ 1 ] The list includes people who have dyed their red hair into another color or whose red hair has gone grey with age, but not people who have dyed their ...
Many Udmurt people have red hair, [15] [16] and a festival to celebrate the red-haired people has been held annually in Izhevsk since 2004. [17] The Udmurts used to be semi-nomadic forest dwellers that lived in riverside communities. However, most Udmurts now live in towns.
[5] [6] [7] The MC1R gene is also associated with red hair more strongly than with freckles. Most red-haired individuals have two variants of the MC1R gene and almost all have one. [6] The variants that cause red hair are the same that cause freckling. [5] Freckling can also be found in areas, such as Japan, where red hair is not
If you’re a fair-skinned, freckle-faced redhead, hot summer days can be a nightmare, with hours spent dodging the rays under a floppy hat and applying sunscreen with cartoon characters on the ...
Throughout history, scarlet locks have cycled in and out of fashion. In the mid-to-late 1800s pre-Raphaelite artists such as Gabriel Rossetti almost exclusively painted ethereal, red-headed ...
The Fischer–Saller scale, named after Eugen Fischer and Karl Saller is used in physical anthropology and medicine to determine the shades of hair color. The scale uses the following designations: A (very light blond), B to E (light blond), F to L (), M to O (dark blond), P to T (light brown to brown), U to Y (dark brown to black) and Roman numerals I to IV and V to VI (red-blond).
This aversion to freckles wasn’t limited to Korea. When I returned to the United States, my favorite novel, Anne of Green Gables, took on a heavier weight. Red-haired, gangly-limbed Anne proudly ...