Sentences with phrase «hair colour variation»

Further analysis revealed that a single - letter change in the gene accounted for 46 per cent of the population's hair colour variation, with the blonde allele being recessive to the dark hair allele.

Although previous studies have found that a large percentage of hair colour variation is explained by heritable factors, previous genetic studies only identified a dozen or so hair colour genes.

A team of scientists, led by academics from King's College London and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair colour variation.

Not exact matches

Occasionally, the native red squirrels occur in colour variations from light grey to black — but can always be unmistakably recognized as red squirrels by the tiny hair tufts at the tips of their ears.

It is easy to mix the herbal hair colours with one another to achieve wonderful colour variations in the spectrum of red and brown.