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Major locus for red hair color linked to MNS blood groups on chromosome 4
Author(s) -
Eiberg Hans,
Mohr Jan
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1987.tb03339.x
Subject(s) - locus (genetics) , genetics , biology , chromosome , gene
Red hair color (RHC) was studied in a Danish material of normal families that was tested earlier for 65 marker Systems. We found 4.85% of the parents to be red‐baired or to have been so early in life. Scoring RHC for linkage as an autosomal dominant against blond and as hypostatic to dark hair gave a lod score of z=5.50 at=0.05 in maies and=0.24 in females for the MNS blood group System; this assigns a major locus for red hair to chromosome 4.