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The Inheritance of Red Hair

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

David C. Rife
David C. Rife*
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla

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1. The proportions of red haired offspring within families in which one or both parents are red haired are too high to support the hypothesis that red hair is inherited as a simple recessive trait.

2. Family data and gene frequency analysis give strong support to the hypothesis that red pigment in human hair is dominant to its absence, and is hypostatic to brown and black.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 342 - 349
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1967

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