Blond Hair Gene Identified

A genetic mutation that codes for the blond hair of Northern Europeans has been identified. People with these genes could have platinum blond, dirty blond or even dark brown hair. "There's a half dozen different chromosome regions that influence hair color," said study co-author David Kingsley, an evolutionary biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University in California. The combination of variants that you have at all those different genes — that sets your final hair color." [Top 10 Things That Make Humans Special] Read More http://ift.tt/1wUJVvT