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From: ellen Levy <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Changable hair color (without using dye)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:05:24 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <42193C99.8040403@pacbell.net>


Judy:

Here's a good site with an explanation of this
phenomenon:

www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=63

Hope that helps.

Ellen Coffman

--- Judy McCoy <> wrote:

> Ellen wrote:
>
> >Apparently another amino acid compound - Val60Leu -
> is
> >associated with blond and light brown hair.
> >
>
> Please excuse what is probably a stupid question,
> but there is a pattern
> down through my maternal line where the offspring
> are blonde or light
> haired until they are into their teens then the hair
> darkens. My
> maternal grandmother, her 2 daughters my mother and
> aunt, and myself,
> one of my sons, and my first cousin and her 2
> daughters and 2 sons all
> were at least light haired (several of us were quite
> pale blonde, me for
> one) until our teens, then our hair darkened to
> where it is finally mid
> to dark brown. The question, why did our hair color
> change from one
> considered recessive to one dominant? Is is a fluke
> of my mtDNA (that
> crazy 485C) or what? Poor recessive blonde gene gave
> in to the
> overpowering bully dominant brown?
>
> Judy
> (the very curious newbie)
>
>
>
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