Probability of my baby having red hair?

Keyla

My husband has red hair but there's some blonde and I have brown hair.

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It isnt impossible, a friend of mine has red hair and her husband has brown hair, one of their children has blonde hair and the other has red. Untill you have your baby you wont know and sometimes a baby will be born with brown/blonde hair but it could get redder as they get a bit older. However I think it would be more likely that your child will have brown hair as it is the most dominant colour, its like eye colours, if one parent has green or blue eyes and the other has brown then their child will more likely have brown eyes as its more dominant but its not impossible for the child to have blue or green eyes. If there has been red hair somewhere in your family history then it will probably increase the chances of your baby having red hair, but it cant be said what colour your baby's hair will be untill they are born.

Tracing the origins of red hair.......?

ZERO

where did red hair first appear in history.

scotland and ireland have the highest percentage of red hair in their populations. around 14%

what ethnicity contributed MCR1 to the british isles?

recent genetic studies tie the british peoples genes to the basques of spain. and they also show that celtic DNA is almost identical to basque.

so is it safe to assert that the basques contributed the red hair gene MCR1 to britain.
did they have red hair?
do they have red hair now?

some claim it was the vikings that brought MCR1 but the Pict's predate the vikings and they were renowned as redheads.

the redhead gene is the result of a mutation when two cultures intermixed this mutation only occurred once. implying all redheads have a common ancestor. if britain has the highest percentage of redheads then you would think it was in britain the first redheads occurred. but redheads were found in earlier indo european tribes such as
the sea people, Scythian, cimmerans, tribe of dan,
does this suggest a migration of indo european redheads to britain?

at what point and what culture do you think introduced MCR1?
is it an Indo european trait or a non indo european trait?
also if red hair came from the vikings and they came from north europe then why do they have such a low redhair percentage to the british ilses
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I don't think there's really anyway to pinpoint the moment when red hair first appeared. I've never heard of the gene you mentioned.

I would say it's not safe to assert anything. Red hair can be common in multiplie places throughout history.

I did not know Picts were renowned as redheads, that's news to me.

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How to return your hair to its natural color without dye?

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Q. I realize this might be a silly or impossible question but I figured it was worth a shot considering I really don't have money for a hairdresser and I've learned my lesson trying to dye my hair myself (so I don't need a lecture about that, I got it.) Anyways my hair history starts 5 years ago when I started getting my hair highlighted (with bleach) a few years later I dyed it for the first time a light brown color. After that I dyed it to a darker brown. Then I bleached it and put some pink in it. When the pink faded a dyed it to a light brown/dirty blonde color. All mentioned before was done by my aunt who went through cosmetology school. Next I dyed it a dark red color. When I decided I was ready to go back to my natural color I made the mistake of trying to dye it back which only made the previous color darker. It was then that I went to the salon. She did a thick weave to take out some of the red and then dyed it to my natural color which is a medium brown. At first it all blended well and matched my natural color almost perfectly. But its been a while and the dye has faded so now its blonde and red streaked and my roots have grown out a lot. I don't really like the way it looks. I don't really have a lot of money to spend on this and besides that I don't want to put the chemicals on my hair. So I'm looking for either a natural home remedy of some sort or another solution that isn't too expensive or hair dye.
If there is anything I'd really appreciate it! If not thanks anyways and I'll just have to suck it up. Haha. :)

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well if you crush vitamin c pills into a paste with water and leave on the hair for an hour ,itll fade alot.dishsoap works ,a baking soda paste works.swim in a chlorinated pool .the vitamins is the best ive tried.also beadhead shampoo ,the orange one ,stripped pink from my hair pretty quicky

Do both parents have to have red hair gene for them to go onto have a red haired baby?

Mrs H

Was just wondering as my husbands mum has dark red/auburn hair & i have no red hair in my family (that i know of) is it possible for us to have a red head?

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A red hair color is caused by a recessive gene, which means you both would have to pass this gene on to your child for it to have red hair. If your husband's mother had red hair she will have passed on the gene so he's probablya carrier. If you are also a carrier chances are roughly 25% your kid will get both recessive alleles and thus red hair, but since there is no history of red haired people in you family chances of you being a carrier are rather slim.

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