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- Is it possible to end up with red hair by getting the red hair gene from just one parent?
- Is there a link between red hair and Rh negative blood?
- How can red hair skip a generation and reappear in a family?
- Did red hair in humans come from interbreeding with Neanderthals?
- Why does red hair come in so many different shades?
- What are the chances my child will have red hair and blue eyes?
- Why is the combination of red hair and brown eyes so rare?
- How is it that red hair shows up in people of African descent?
- Why do people with red hair need more anesthetic?
- My wife has red hair, and my grandma did too. Could we have a redhead?
- Neither my husband nor I have redheads in our family. How did our child get red hair?
- My husband has red hair, and my father did too. What are the chances we’ll have a redhead?
- I have been wondering about this for a while… will red hair eventually go extinct?
- What are my chances of having a red haired child?
- Can we genetically test for traits like hair and eye color?
- Why does hair lighten in the sun but skin darken?
- Why does hair color sometimes change with age?
- Can you tell me more about the genetics of hair color?
- Is it possible to reverse greying hair with genetic engineering?
- Is it possible for humans to evolve “weird” colored hair (like green, blue, or purple)?
- How does curly hair work?
- I object to describing a redhead’s MC1R protein as ‘not working.’ What makes red a mistake?
- How are straight and curly hair inherited?
- Is eye color connected to hair color?
- Why does hair sometimes become curlier or straighter as people get older?
- Why do people of African descent have a unique hair texture?
- Can you use genes from your hair to clone yourself?
- Why does the hair color of children often change color as they grow older?
- If I’m a carrier of red/green colorblindness, why are all four of my sons affected?
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- Are redheads going to go extinct?
- Can a recessive trait become dominant?
- My class is studying genetics: Can you help me make Punnett squares for celebrities?
- Does crossing-over ever occur within a gene?
- Why is it that some traits show as codominant, but others show as incomplete dominant?
- Why do I have freckles?
- What are the chances a child will look more like their father than mother?
- Is there any way to fix my broken MC1R gene?
- Do recessive genes not make any proteins? What exactly do they do?
- Are children genetically closer to their father than their mother?
- Do all blonde people have a common ancestor?
- Why do children from the same parents have different appearances and personalities?
- Did Neanderthals and humans interbreed? If so, does that affect our genes now?
- How can two brown-haired parents have a blond child?
- I’m concerned that my child doesn’t have traits I expected. Should I do a paternity test?
- Why don’t I have freckles while my parents and brother and various aunts and uncles do?
- WHY is it that some alleles are dominant, and some are recessive?
- Can a couple have a baby that is significantly darker or lighter than either individual?
- Can two parents with albinism have an unaffected child?
- If our closest relatives are chimps, why is some human DNA more like gorilla DNA?
- How do I have Rh negative-type blood, when both my parents are positive?
- Is anything known about the genetics of eye color beyond brown, blue, or green? Like amber?
- Is it possible to know what a person looks like from their DNA?
- What will my children look like? Will they have freckles?
- What is the Bombay blood group?
- I uploaded my ancestry data to a site that makes health predictions. How concerned should I be?
- Why do some places say the human genome is 6 billion bases, while others say 3 billion?
- How can our daughter have freckles if neither parent does?
- Why do some Africans with albinism have green eyes?
- How does a mutation in DNA cause a disease like sickle cell anemia?
- What does Amino Acid Alteration p.Asp113Asn mean?
- Does Rh negative blood come from reptiles?
- What is the difference between fraternal, identical, and semi-identical twins?
- Is there any risk for a child whose parents are carriers for Hemoglobin C and sickle respectively?
- Can two blue-eyed parents have a green or brown-eyed child?
- Does having closely related parents mess with your DNA?
- Will a chimeric parent have children who are also chimeras?
- What is the Rh factor and why is it a problem to be Rh negative during pregnancy?
- What’s the latest news regarding the inheritance of a sociopath gene?
- If a person has a dominant trait, can they know their genotype for certain?
- What are the odds I have a BRCA mutation if my grandfather’s brother had it?
- How do you know what eye color for example would be dominant or recessive?
- Can you get DNA from an angora sweater to prove it is real?
- Why do people sneeze when they look into the sun?
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- How can parents with attached earlobes have a child with unattached?
- How does selecting against a disease affect the traits my son will inherit from his grandmother?
- Which parent gives you the most dominant genes?
- If I have alpha thalassemia would my kids be a carrier for my genes?
- Is everyone with blue eyes related? How was that trait passed on?
- Is it possible for a theoretical species to have exactly 3, equally represented phenotypes?
- Did Rh- blood come from Neanderthals?
- How can 2 parents with dwarfism have a child that is of average height?
- Could it be possible for conjoined twins to have different fathers?
- Where do different skin colors come from?
- Is psoriasis genetically transferred? Are there any gene therapy treatments?
- Can we see alleles with a microscope?
- How can a person with African ancestry have blue eyes?
- What is the difference between dominant vs. recessive?
- What are the chances I’ll go bald?
- Why is there a higher chance of Down syndrome if a parent has a balanced translocation?
- Do boys have different genes than girls?
- What are the chances my husband carries Kabuki syndrome? He has an affected nephew.
- Are gray eyes the same as blue in terms of genetics?
- What are the genetic risks of two siblings having a child together?
- How do different shades of eye color happen? Like light or dark brown?
- What type of test can be done to determine if you are a chimera?
- How many different combinations of people are possible?
- How can all my siblings but one have crooked pinkies if it’s a dominant trait?
- How can humans range from 0-4% Neanderthal DNA, if we're only 1.2% different from chimpanzees?
- Why are green peas recessive and common?
- Do you think nanotechnology will outpace and prevent the need for cloning?
- Would it be genetically possible for two individuals to populate the Earth?
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- If I am a carrier for color blindness, would my son be color blind for certain?
- Did I inherit baldness from my father’s side?
- How can you tell which features are dominant in a family?
- Is it true that only blonds have blue eyes?
- Why are gender tests more complicated than just looking at chromosomes?
- How and why do children from the same parents differ genetically?
- What is known about the origins of psoriasis?
- I am heterozygous for the H63D mutation. Will I get a neurodegenerative disease?
- Are long eyelashes a genetic trait?
- If someone’s sister is a carrier for muscular dystrophy, what are the chances they are too?
- What role do grandparents play in the traits of their grandchildren?
- Since only one of a woman’s X chromosomes works in a cell, why aren’t more women colorblind?
- Why are all my sisters but none of my brothers colorblind?
- Can there be variation in the degree of inherited color vision deficiency?
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- How are protective SNPs identified? Can they be identified through the GWAS?
- Why are white cats with blue eyes often deaf as well?
- How could a person have two very different appearing halves of their face?
- How many blood types are there?
- Are there ways for a boy to end up NOT colorblind when his mom is colorblind?
- Can my sister and I have the same father even though our ancestry test results are different?
- What percent of DNA is different between a European and an Asian?
- Are there any codominant traits in humans?
- Why do my brother and I share 38% DNA, instead of 50%?
- What is Rhesus factor? Did we get it from Rhesus monkeys? Can Rh factor be found in other animals?
- Is it possible for Rh negative parents to have an Rh positive child?
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- I look more like my father; did I get his genes?
- How can some scientists determine that all humans were originally from Africa?
- If all the cells in my body have the same DNA, then why don’t all my cells look the same?
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- If I share 22.2% DNA with someone, what are the possible ways we could be related?
- Could X-inactivation cause a heterozygous female carrier to be colour blind?
- Can my cousin and I be tested to see if my father was really my father?
- If two kids have the same dad, and their moms are sisters, how are they related?
- If both parents have sickle cell trait, how likely is their child to have sickle cell anemia?
- Why don’t my sister and I have the same ancestry results?
- Why don’t my relative and I share exactly the predicted % of DNA?
- If a man has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, what are the chances his children will have DMD?
- How can two drastically different cell types share the same genes?
- Do similar traits in different species imply shared genes?
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- I’m the only colorblind person in my family. Do I have a mutation?
- If identical twin A donates sperm to twin B’s partner, will the child resemble twin B?
- Are chimpanzees our closest relative? Why do we still differ so much?
- Why does cancer occur in humans?
- Does the existence of Y-Adam mean there was a time on Earth when there was just one man?
- Is there a way to tell if someone is my half sister or full sister through 23andMe?
- Can people be allergic to water?
- If I’m 51% Italian, do both of my parents need to be Italian?
- Which human population is the most genetically unique?
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- What are the chances that my children will inherit fragile X syndrome?
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- How much DNA do you really share with a sibling? Is 50% just an average?
- What are the genetics behind tone deafness?
- How do siblings share 50% DNA while humans and chimps share 99%+ DNA?
- How are genes turned off in areas of the body where they are not needed?
- If I’m happy a lot, is that a trait?
- If an identical twin commits a crime, can you tell who it was by DNA?
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- How does my son have albinism, when no one else in our family does?
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- What are the odds of inheriting no DNA from a great, great, great grandparent?
- Am I more genetically related to my grandson or my nephew?
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- I was wondering how do you get from a gene to a blue eye?
- Can identical twins look and act non-identically?
- Why are some people taller than their parents?
- What are the odds of making two eggs that are genetically the same?
- Would a paternity test have trouble telling a brother/sister apart from a mother/son?
- What information will a DNA test between my half-brother and I tell me about my parents?
- I am an identical twin. What percentage of genes do my children share with my twin's children?
- Would a woman share more DNA with a half sister than a half brother?
- Do certain humans have a genetic predisposition to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)?
- How do I know if I’m a secretor or a non-secretor?
- Can genetic testing determine if my cousin is actually my cousin?
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- What is the term they used on CSI for a person with two different types of DNA?
- What does DNA do?
- Why can’t humans and dogs have offspring?
- If both parents are identical twins, will their children be identical twins too?
- Do all blue eyed people share a common ancestor?
- What are the chances of my children inheriting my baldness?
- How does X-inactivation work?
- I am an African-American. Why do I have blue eyes?
- What genes cause cheek and chin dimples?
- What is a mutated gene?
- How does a gene sequencer machine work?
- Why are some siblings a bone marrow match, while others aren’t?
- I have 0.5% of an ancestry that my sister doesn’t have at all! How can that happen?
- If an ancestry test says someone is my cousin, what other possible relationships could we have?
- Can you tell whether a person’s parents are related from their DNA?
- What are the chances of a color blind man having color blind grandchildren?
- Can you compare human and plant DNA?
- How do you identify types of stem cells and turn them into other cell types?
- I have type AB blood, and my father is definitely O-. Is that truly impossible?
- Why do eyes sometimes appear to change color?
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- What is it like to be a genetic scientist?
- Why do cells age?
- If someone has a bone marrow transplant, would their child look like the donor?
- Is a transgender woman still genetically male after surgery?
- Is it possible to link a skeleton from 1862 to living relatives?
- Why do identical twins have physical differences if they have the same DNA?
- What are the differences between modern vs. older karyotypes?
- How can my mom have DNA relatives who don’t show up as related to me?
- How can I share the same amount of DNA but different numbers of segments with siblings?
- Is eczema a genetic disease?
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- Is cancer inherited?
- How can a living male determine whether he is a descendant of a male who lived in the 1600s?
- Can you give examples of beneficial mutations? Like sickle cell and malaria resistance?
- What part of the jellyfish does the GFP gene come from?
- All three of my children are AB negative. Does this mean that I must be Rh negative?
- How is blood type inherited? And do exceptions ever happen?
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- How is DNA recovered if a body is burnt in an accident?
- Could a bone marrow transplant recipient have two sets of DNA?
- Are ‘male’ traits caused by genes on the Y chromosome or the X?
- Why are some chromosomal abnormalities worse than others?
- Can you explain the genetics of an individual with one blue eye and one brown eye?
- If DNA determines whether we get a disease, what is the point of lifestyle changes?
- Why do my brother and I look so different?
- Is Gardner’s Syndrome genetic and what are the effects?
- Can human DNA work in a tomato cell?
- Can yellow mice have brown pups?
- Do clones have anything in common other than the way they look?
- Is there a genetic test for cleft lip?
- Why do zebras have two different colors? What color is dominant?
- Is it ever possible for a person or an animal to have one biological parent rather than two?
- Why is it that human beings cannot be cloned?
- Do dogs have the same kind of DNA as humans?
- Does ethnicity or race influence height?
- I’m female and don’t have a Y chromosome. Did I inherit any DNA from my paternal grandfather?
- Do second cousins have a high risk of having a child with a disability?
- If men and women both have the same genes, how is it that men get traits that women do not?
- Can you tell someone’s age from their DNA?
- My wife and I have Type A blood, but our child has AB! How did this happen?
- What is the gene for schizophrenia?
- Can mitochondrial DNA in human fingerprints identify a person?
- How rare is DNA mosaicism of the sex chromosomes?
- How do we know which chromosome a parent passed on. Is there a 50/50 chance of either?
- If I marry my first cousin once removed, is there a chance of genetic disorders in our children?
- Why did 23andMe get my eye color wrong?
- Does a mutation that occurs in a muscle cell in one part of the body also occur in another?
- Is being transgender related to having different sex chromosomes?
- Are anxiety disorders caused by genes from your parents?
- What are the chances a child will end up with Fragile X if mom has a premutation?
- What causes heterochromia?
- How do ancestry tests work?
- What determines how much I look like my parents?
- Why are females always carriers for X-linked diseases, and not affected by X-inactivation?
- Can you marry a second cousin? What about a first cousin or half sibling?
- What would happen if X-inactivation didn’t occur properly?
- Is it possible to predict what color eyes my child will have?
- Where does Rh- originate from? Why is it so rare in the United States?
- Are surrogate children genetically related to the birth mother?
- Why did the very blue eyes of a kid become brown when he grew up?
- Do our genes make vegetables taste bitter?
- Why can’t we use genetics to choose cancer treatments?
- Is there a finite number of ‘possible’ human beings?
- I have AB blood, and my dad was type O (and also Bombay). Is that possible?
- Is it possible for Rh- to disappear from a family’s lineage?
- How did half-siblings end up with AB and O blood types?
- How did I inherit my heterozygous MTHFR mutations?
- How do people get Friedreich's ataxia and who is most likely to get it?
- I have sickle cell trait, which my first two children inherited. Does that mean my third won’t?
- How well can ancestry tests detect third or fifth cousins?
- Since the human genome is mapped, is it possible to create fully functional organs in labs?
- How do scientists cure sickle cell disease?
- How accurate are Rh blood type tests?
- What do hormones have to do with gene regulation?
- If we cross a heterozygous pea plant, could we get both yellow and green peas on the same plant?
- How does the DNA helix lose bases?
- What are all the possible blood types for any combination of parents?
- Is it possible to make a baby with 3 eyes?
- Why is the genome split up into chromosomes?
- How are chimeras possible?
- What is the evolutionary significance of introns?
- Dyslexia runs in my family. Will my grandkids be dsylexic too?
- Is depression a genetic issue?
- What are the A1298C and C677T mutations?
- Is stuttering caused by genetics?
- What mutations, in addition to p53, lead to cancer?
- Albinism runs in my wife’s family. Could we have a child with albinism?
- How is dwarfism inherited?
- If my partner had 4 sons from a previous marriage, am I likely to have a boy as well?
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- What is Mendelian genetics?
- Could humans develop mutational resistance, just as bacteria have developed antibiotic resistance?
- Is it possible to have a 20/20 match and not be the dad in a motherless paternity test?
- How can you modify something’s genes?
- If 23andMe says people are half siblings, can you tell if they share a mom or a dad?
- Do girls share more DNA with their paternal aunts than their maternal aunts?
- How far back can an ancestry test go?
- Can twins have two different blood types?
- What is the T haplogroup of the paternal Y-DNA?
- What are chimeras?
- What is the difference between the DNA of a cactus and human?
- Is it possible for a DNA paternity test to be wrong? In what circumstances might this happen?
- Is it possible to reconstruct dinosaurs from the DNA samples in amber and bird DNA?
- Can a paternity test be wrong if the tested man is related to the real dad?
- Could a mutation cause a child to have an unexpected blood type?
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