Red hair

Red hair is a hair color shared by several species, among them humans, orangutans, domestic cats, cattle, and horses. It varies from a deep red through to bright copper.

External links

• Box NF, Wyeth JR, O'Gorman LE, Martin NG, Sturm RA. Characterization of melanocyte stimulating hormone receptor variant alleles in twins with red hair. Hum Mol Genet. 1997 Oct;6(11):1891-7.
• OMIM entry on red hair
• The roots of red hair
• Red Hair genetics for non-specialists
• Melanocortin 1 receptor: What?s red got to do with it?
• The Melanocortin 1 Receptor (MC1R): More Than Just Red Hair
• Why is red hair with brown eyes so uncommon?
• Distribution of hair and eye color and sex in 592 statistics students. from Snee, R. D. (1974). Graphical display of two-way contingency tables. The American Statistician, 28, 9-12. (displayed as a table)
• A list of "famous redheads" at RedAndProud.com