Asian Hair

Hairdressers know that East Asians have the thickest hair in the world, and now scientists know why.
Geneticists in Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan found Asian hair 30% thicker than African and 50% thicker than European. They then turned to the HapMap Project, where scientists throughout the world compared gene variations among Nigerians, Europeans, Chinese, and Japanese and discovered that 88% of the Asians had a variation or mutation in a gene named EDAR, which is involved in the creation of hair follicles. The other two races didn't have the variation nor such thick strands of hair.



p.s. credit goes to Charlie, TIMOTEI!