Question: What is the effect of genetics in your hair texture?

 
 
find 5 sources that provide information. summarize info from each source into a 
paragraph 
 
Source 1: ​Curly Hair and Hair follicles 
The hair follicles are a factor of the hair texture. If a person has rounder 
hair follicles, they end up with straight hair. Oval hair follicles make wavy hair 
and flattened (c-shaped) follicles make curly hair. More than one gene plays a 
factor of hair texture. Variations are affected by the population. Curly hair is 
more common for African people, not Asians, and somewhat in the middle for 
Europeans.  
 
Source 2: ​Genetic syndromes 
Genetics also determine the thickness of the hair. This can tie into one’s 
ethnic background. Hormones and medicine along with chemicals change a 
person’s hair texture. Age also affects the thickness and hair type. Genetic 
syndromes are created by ‘mutations’ found in genes contributing to the hair 
structure and stability. 
 
Source 3: ​Thick hair 
Hair is determined by your ancestry. Therefore genes do affects your hair 
texture! In the university of Tokyo, it was found that Asian’s hair fibers are 30% 
larger than Africans and 50% more than Europeans. A gene EDAR was found in 
asians (88%) (japanese and chinese). This resulted in the hair thickness. This gene 
makes hair precursor cells to form a follicle. This however, doesn’t show whether 
someone is going to be curly-headed or have straight hair. How thick your hair is 
also is affected by your gender and age. 
 
Source 4: ​The Tech 
Your hair’s thickness and texture are affected by your hair follicles. (where 
your hair grows) More specifically, the shape and size of that follicle. A person’s 
thickness is seen through the size and how many hairs are in the follicle. The size 
tells how thin or thick a strand is. (Large follicles = thick hair and small follicles = 
thin hair) African hair produces more sebum (oil) on the scalp. It’s short because 
the longer, the more breakage and frail the strand is. Woolly hair syndrome; dry, 
tight spirals. 
 
Source 5: ​Hair structure 
 The shaft is what’s visible and the hair follicle is in the skin/scalp and can’t 
be seen. The follicle itself affects the texture, the shape of the follicle is 
determined by genes passed down. Curly hair is a ‘autosomal dominant trait’. 
This affects your children, as their hair might be in the middle if your partner has 
a different hair texture than you. Curly hair has 85-95% chance of heritability. 
When your hair follicle is symmetrical, you have straight hair. Asymmetrical is 
curly. When comparing a curly and straight strand, there was a difference in 
keratin. (protein to hair)