{"id":1822,"date":"2024-11-27T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2024-11-27T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:47:13","slug":"5-strange-facts-about-redheads-you-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/5-strange-facts-about-redheads-you-never-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Strange Facts About Redheads You Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Non-redheads can have a redheaded child<\/h3>\n

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Red hair is a recessive trait that\u2019s inherited.\u00a0That means both parents must have this gene variant in order to contribute it to their offspring. But here\u2019s the important part: Those parents don\u2019t necessarily have to have red hair themselves to have ginger offspring.\u00a0(Check out these\u00a0inherited traits\u00a0from mom and dad.)<\/p>\n

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Red hair and blue eyes are the rarest combination<\/h3>\n

\"redhead<\/p>\n

The MC1R (or melanocortin 1 receptor) gene determines hair, skin and eye color. If you\u2019re a redhead, your MC1R gene has a mutation\u2014or possibly several. It\u2019s why redheads are so rare. And if you have red hair\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0blue eyes, the rarest hair and eye color combination, the genetic stars were in alignment. According to evolutionary biology professor Mark Elgar, PhD, of the University of Melbourne, the odds of having both traits are around 0.17%\u2014that\u2019s about 13 million people out of the 7.6 billion on earth.<\/p>\n

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Redheads are not going extinct<\/h2>\n

\"Dermatologist<\/p>\n

Red may be the rarest hair color in the world, but the world is big and redheads are here to stay. While they make up about 2% of the population, that means 158 million gingers are walking the earth. Fun fact: The highest concentration of redheads\u2014at 10%\u2014is in Ireland. But just because they are rare, doesn\u2019t mean these genes are being diluted.<\/p>\n

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Redheads have a higher risk for skin cancer<\/h3>\n

\"Unrecognizable<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no question that red-haired individuals are at a much\u00a0higher risk for skin cancer\u00a0than brown-haired individuals,\u201d confirms Gregory Papadeas, DO, a Denver-based dermatologist and past president of the Colorado Dermatologic Society. This includes melanoma, cancer that starts in the cells that produce melanin and potentially the most serious of skin cancers.<\/p>\n

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Redheads have a higher rate of gynecological cancers<\/h3>\n

\"Senior<\/p>\n

According to a large review published in\u00a0PLOS One<\/em>\u00a0in 2017, female redheads have a higher risk of gynecological cancers, such as cervical, uterine and ovarian cancer. The authors of the study speculated that the increased risk was related to being exposed to higher levels of estrogen before birth (prenatal estrogen influences not only the emergence of certain medical conditions, but also the development of certain hair and eye colors, particularly red hair).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Non-redheads can have a redheaded child Red hair is a recessive trait that\u2019s inherited.\u00a0That means both parents must have this gene variant in order to contribute it to their offspring. But here\u2019s the important part: Those parents don\u2019t necessarily have to have red hair themselves to have ginger offspring.\u00a0(Check out these\u00a0inherited traits\u00a0from mom and dad.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}