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Red hair black people. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the mc1r protein. As a recessive trait it must be inherited from both parents to cause the hair to become red. I have only met very few people who are black with red hair so i m going to start compiling photos and stuff about it here. Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called mc1r also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor.
Please let me know if you would like to add a photo i see many followers are redheads too. I ll wager that you ve never seen. Jan 11 2019 i m mixed but i have naturally curly red hair. Red hair or ginger hair occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population appearing with greater frequency two to six percent among people of northern or northwestern european ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations.
16 famous black women who ve had red hair and looked absolutely amazing. Normally when activated by a certain hormone mc1r sparks a series of signals that leads to the production of brown or black pigment. It s unbelievable that such a thing could be true in 2020 but it is and i m of a mind to bring the reality to the forefront. Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a mutation in the mc1r protein.
Red hair occurs naturally on approximately 1 2 of the human population 1 2 it occurs more frequently 2 6 in people of northern or western european ancestry and less frequently in other populations. Black people can absolutely be born with red hair in every shade on the spectrum practically. Red hair is a recessive genetic trait caused by a series of mutations in the melanocortin 1 receptor mc1r a gene located on chromosome 16.