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Red hair--a desirable mutation?

Journal of cosmetic dermatology - 1 Jul 2002

Ha Thomas, Rees Jonathan L

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Red hair is one of the most striking variants of human hair coloration and has historically been of profound social importance. Red hair in man is due to certain loss of function mutations of one of the peptide products of the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R, MIM 155555). Such functional mutations enable the melanocyte to produce red-yellow pheomelanin in preference to the...

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PMID: 17147521
DOI: 10.1046/j.1473-2165.2002.00036.x

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