Most Asian people have dark hair due to their genetic makeup. The gene responsible for hair color, called MC1R, controls the production of melanin, the pigment that gives hair its color. Asians tend to have a variant of the MC1R gene that produces more eumelanin, which is the pigment responsible for darker hair colors. Asians also have thick hair due to a correlation between a nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the ectodysplasin A receptor (EDAR) gene and hair thickness in Asians in a genome-wide analysis. I had just gotten my hair cut and every time I get my haircut in a different place, the stylists always comment how beautiful my hair is and how thick it is. This is the one thing I do like about my Asian-ness, my hair.
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