{"id":85704,"date":"2018-12-11T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/gene-study-unravels-redheads-mystery"},"modified":"2018-12-11T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:02:22","slug":"gene-study-unravels-redheads-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/gene-study-unravels-redheads-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Gene study unravels redheads mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-study-unravels-redheads-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight genes linked to red hair have been discovered by scientists, helping to shed light on how redheads inherit their distinctive locks.<\/p>\n<p>The Edinburgh University-led research has been described as the largest genetic study of hair colour to date.<\/p>\n<p>It had been thought red hair was controlled by a single gene, MC1R, with versions passed on from both parents.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46522679\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46522679<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight genes linked to red hair have been discovered by scientists, helping to shed light on how redheads inherit their distinctive locks. The Edinburgh University-led research has been described as the largest genetic study of hair colour to date. It had been thought red hair was controlled by a single gene, MC1R, with versions passed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}