If you’ve got a ginger beard but don’t have ginger hair on your head, you might be wondering why - especially if the ginger gene doesn’t run in your family.
Research suggests it’s down to a combination of genes, and one in particular, the MC1R gene.
MC1R plays a key role in giving people red hair, so when a person has a ginger beard but not ginger hair, it’s because they have a mutated version of the MC1R gene.