Articles related to "Mc1r"Changes in the MC1R gene that lead to red hair will always be present at a low level in the collective DNA of humanity.
Good news: naturally red hair no longer makes you seen as a witch. Bad news: it can make you more sensitive to pain and more prone to some types of cancer, like melanoma.
By looking at the golden gene, scientists have found that Northern Europeans turned lighter-skinned some 30,000 years after they arrived in Europe.
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