Why Do So Many Brits Have Red Hair? The Answer May Be Cloudy Weather. Maybe…

The following excerpt is from a fascinating article posted at parentabout.com:

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The breakdown is 13% of Scottish people, 10% of Irish people. 6% of English people have red hair. Now genetic researchers want to know why so many in Birtain have red hair and the answer might be found in the cloudy weather found in the British Isles.

BritainsDNA is conducting a project that’s aimed at solving the mystery of the red hair and they hope to have the results by early next year. they’ve developed a test that can determine who carries the red gene variant and are analyzing the DNA of 4000 test subjects in order to find out who carries the gene variant that causes red hair, a variant that mightn’t show itself for generations…

Read the full article.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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