page_title: Red hair
section_title: Asia (all regions)
hierarchical_section_title: Red hair / Geographic distribution / Modern / Asia (all regions)
caption_attribution_description: English: Mustafa Amini warming up for the Australian Olympic Football team in 2011 at Gosford, New South Wales.
context_page_description: Red hair occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population, appearing with greater frequency among people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.
  Red hair varies in hue from a deep burgundy or bright copper, or auburn, to burnt orange or red-orange to strawberry blond. Characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin, it is associated with fair skin color, lighter eye color, freckles, and sensitivity to ultraviolet light.
  Cultural reactions to red hair have varied from ridicule to admiration with many common stereotypes in existence regarding redheads. The term redhead has been in use since at least 1510.
context_section_description: In Asia, red hair can be found among some peoples of Arab, Iranian, Mongolian, Turkic, Miao and Hmong descent.
  Ancient human remains, in a state of excellent preservation, have been discovered in various parts of Asia. These include the famous Tarim mummies of Xinjiang, China, some of whom had red and reddish-brown hair. Several preserved samples of human hair have been obtained from an Iron Age cemetery in Khakassia, South Siberia. Many of the hair samples appear red in color, and one skull from the cemetery had a preserved red moustache.
  In the Book of Wei, Chinese author Wei Shou notes that Liu Yuan was over 6 feet tall and had red strain on his long beard.
  There are other examples of red hair among early Turkic people. Muqan Qaghan, the third Qaghan of the Turkic Khaganate, was said to have red hair and blue eyes.
  In Chinese sources, ancient Kyrgyz people were described as fair-skinned, green- or blue-eyed and red-haired people with a mixture of European and East Asian features.
  The Kipchak people were a Turkic ethnic group from central Asia who served in the Golden Horde military forces after being conquered by the Mongols. In the Chinese historical document 'Kang mu', the Kipchak people are described as red haired and blue eyed.
  The ethnic Miao people of China are recorded with red hair. According to F.M Savina of the Paris Foreign missionary society the appearance of the Miao were are pale yellow in their skin complexion, almost white, their hair color often being light or dark brown, sometimes even red or corn-silk blond, and a few of them even have pale blue eyes.
  A phenotype study of Hmong People show they are sometimes born with red hair.
caption: Mustafa Amini, Australian footballer of Afghan descent
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