Curly Hair And Straight Hair Genetics

But hair curl is what s called an additive trait which means that the amount of curl you have depends on how many curly hair gene variations you inherit.
Curly hair and straight hair genetics. Whether you are sporting curly locks or poker straight hair is determined by the shape of your hair follicle and the behavior of a host of cells. Genetics of hair type. For example normal variations polymorphisms in two genes. The creation of the highly complex biomaterials in hair follicle and how these confer mechanical functions on the fibre so formed is a topic that remains.
Different genes and gene versions are responsible for these different kinds of hair. Second not everyone has straight or curly hair because of the same genes. Notably african hair is more coiled and dry. The biology and genetics of curly hair gillian e.
Ginger2 martin r. These variations are determined by many genes and genetic polymorphisms in combination with environmental factors and not in the least by hair stylists. Neither hair type nor eye color works in this simple way. And people from asia have different straight hair than people from europe.
There are two versions of the hair type gene curly c and straight s. Hair type is an interesting case of something called incomplete dominance. Ultimately hair texture remains a phenomenon that like so many in genetics is. People whose ancestors came from africa have very different curly hair than people whose ancestors came from europe.
Studies suggest that different genes influence hair texture and thickness in people of different ethnic backgrounds. At this point there is. However there are many genes contributing to hair curliness most of them unknown. Recent research points to trichohyalin a protein in hair follicles as having primary influence over hair curl.
Curly hair is dominant so someone is more likely to have curly or wavy hair if at least one of their parents does. Westgate ge 1 ginger rs 2 green mr 2. Genetic factors appear to play a major role in determining hair texture straight wavy or curly and the thickness of individual strands of hair. 3 this has aided genetic studies so called genomewide association studies gwas to try to identify the causative genes for hair traits and to explain their role in hair shape.
2 unilever r d colworth science park sharnbrook bedfordshire uk. Asian hair is straighter and thicker. Hair fibres show wide diversity across and within all human populations suggesting that hair fibre form and colour have been subject to much. The biology and genetics of curly hair.
What this means is that with hair type if you have one of each version of the gene you get a mix of the two or wavy hair. 1 centre for skin sciences university of bradford bradford west yorkshire uk. Because many different genes are. Westgate1 rebecca s.
Curly hair traits are straightforward if rather tedious to measure given that hair is easily sampled and good methods to quantify curl have been developed. And caucasian hair is somewhere in between with around 45 having straight hair 40 having wavy hair and 15 having curly hair. With examples from very straight hair with no rota tional turn about the long axis to the tightly sprung coils of african races.