The following excerpt is from a fascinating article posted at parentabout.com:
The breakdown is 13% of Scottish people, 10% of Irish people. 6% of English people have red hair. Now genetic researchers want to know why so many in Birtain have red hair and the answer might be found in the cloudy weather found in the British Isles.
BritainsDNA is conducting a project that’s aimed at solving the mystery of the red hair and they hope to have the results by early next year. they’ve developed a test that can determine who carries the red gene variant and are analyzing the DNA of 4000 test subjects in order to find out who carries the gene variant that causes red hair, a variant that mightn’t show itself for generations…
