Monday, December 7, 2020, 19:56
«As a red -haired you live things that a brown will never live. If Facebook or Instagram did not exist, 80% of people would not know what my name is Jaime, because practically everyone calls me ‘peli’ (red -haired). If they would give me a euro every time someone, especially men, asks me what color I have my intimate parts, it would be a millionaire. And there are still people who touch a button when you see me because they say we are bad or that we are family of the devil. There are also very hurtful insults that we only receive (carrot, panocha, rusty …), so, so, If you don’t have a strong personality, you can sink quickly. These names have never been surrounded and I have always been to be different from the rest, even if it was for my hair color. Therefore, if I could choose, I would be red again ».
The reflection is from Jaime Gómez, a 27 -year -old from Madrid who is part of the 2% of the Spanish population that is redheadA characteristic that is a consequence that the MC1RGen does not work. This means that they do not produce eumelanin, the melanin that gives the brown color to the hair, and only generates feomless, which delivers the orange tint. In 2011, A study by the University of Edinburgh He discovered that there are other related genes (up to eight) that can change the MC1R gene, so there are people who can have some reddish hair without being a redhead.
Being a redhead is complicated because it’s about A recessive genetic variant. That is, to be the two alleles of the MC1R gene that we receive from our parents, must be dysfunctional. If only one does not work, we will be blonde or morors, therefore two parents of Bruin Haar can have a red -haired children, ”explains Juan José Tellería, a member of the Spanish Association of Human Genetics (Aegh) and the Genetics Laboratory of the Biology and Moladolid Institute) of ValleCulara.
If both parents are red, the possibilities to be born redhead are practically 100%If one of them is a carrier of the gene and the other is red -haired, the chance is 50%, as Gomez happens, in whose family the mother is all redheads; And if both parents are carriers of the gene, even if they are not red -haired, the contingency is slightly less. The gene can also jump several generations and appear later. It is a condition that occurs in all ethnic groups, even African or Asian, which generally have dark or black brown hair.
An advantage to flirt?
The lack of Eumelanina ensures that redheads also have the skin lighter than the average and many freckles! That gives them A greater capacity to synthesize vitamin D But at the same time it protects them less for the ultraviolet rays of the sun, so that they burn and have it easily A higher risk of melanomas (The most serious type of skin cancer). «When I was small, I only had two colors, the white and the guiri red, and although I pushed high protection, I burned the same. There have been summers that I have come three times even with cream, ”says Gomez. The risk is even higher for redheads who live in countries where the incidence of solar energy is greater.
In terms of diseases, they almost have Twice the chances of developing Parkinson’s Compared to the Morenos, published in the magazine according to a study ‘Annals of Neurology’in 2016. Another feature associated with genetics is that Redheads are more sensitive to cold and warmthBecause he suggested an investigation by the University of Louisville, in Kentucky (US), which pointed out that the redhead thermal pain noticed at lower temperatures than 6 ° C (compared to 0ºC of the rest of the population) already higher temperatures of 46.3 ° C (compared to 47.7 ° C of the rest).
They have more risk of melanomas and Parkinson’s and respond differently than anesthesia
His peculiar perception of pain also implies that They need between 20% and 30% more anesthesia in surgical interventionsSuch as a study published in the magazine emphasizes ‘Anesthesiology’In 2004, and as Gómez proved a year ago when he was operated his shoulder. “The first dick didn’t sleep and had to give me a parachute,” he says. In addition, They respond differently than analgesic medicines. Some of them are practically not in power and others influence them so much that they need much lower doses.
Some even have reddish hair linked to the seduction game. A research The American psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman states that the Orange causes her more excitement than all others because it is “an indicator of youth and fertility”. “More complicated to find a red -haired person than a blonde or brunette, he has an extra charm for others”Kaufman expresses his writing. In his experience, Gomez believes that there are tastes for everything: «There are girls who have told me without knowing that redheads do not like them, but others love, especially in Indonesia! Where it is so rare that they find very exotic «. »Moreover, many people paint red head because they are fashionable or because they like it. Moreover, the Septuagenaries always tell me that they are jealous of my hair color and that they ask the hairdresser, “he adds with a smile.
Redheads around the world
«There is much talk that redheads descend from Neanderthals, but it doesn’t seem to be true. Although some Neanderthals were red -hardened, the mechanism that it was probably not the mutation of the MC1R genes, just like there are primates, such as the orang -oetan, who are red to be very different reasons, “says the genetic counter counter. Continent and moved to north -euro. With the highest percentage of redheads.
