By: Fnord
While the mechanisms are somewhat-to-largely independent, is there any evidence for linkage disequilibrium among the genes which lead to skin, eye, and hair color? Are any of them located on the same...
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but I’m wondering if there is any underlying structural genetic reason or if it is just due to population history (e.g., founder-effects or population bottlenecks)? red-hair is due in part to a strong...
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Although you can be black, red-haired and Jamaican: http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v121/n1/full/5601853a.html Unfortunately, my genetics knowledge is rather perplexed by that article
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“The same reason that European babies are often with blue eyes or dark skinned babies are born with light skin, we get darker as we age (with the partial exception of females during puberty). The...
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So I posted the following over at Coturnix’s Blog Around The Clock under some pictures of a pair of cats there, one of which did, and the other did not, have a tuxedo coat pattern. Coturnix referred me...
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I’m doing a project on genetics in hair color so if anyone could give me some good information or any good sites please email me with them. thanks
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We are debating a claim by an Armenian friend of ours that Armenians are blonde as children and have black or dark brown hair as adults. This is interesting since the population is Middle Eastern in...
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Have you heard of this? Don’t people have to have the expression of a recessive blonde jean to exhibit light blonde hair even as children, with the exception of some populations of Australian...
View ArticleBy: Dani
Look into the DNA Project for Armania. For example, the English genetics are not what I thought. There was ice over England until 16,000 to 9,000 years ago. They were nomadic people-gentics from...
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