Red Hair and Family Finder

[rms2]

Undoubtedly your red hair was conveyed to you via an allele other than the three you listed above. Unfortunately, FF doesn't give you results for all the possibilities.

[rms2]

Check this out:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?iid=article_sidebar#/video/world/2013/04/26/sweeney-redhead-gene.cnn

[seferhabahir]

Sure looks like some kind of R1b-L21 map to me. I wonder if any of my R2 cousins have red hair? Interesting about three variants and that two are old and one (histidine red) is not. Do they know if there is a relationship between histidine red and L21?

[rms2]

Sure looks like some kind of R1b-L21 map to me. I wonder if any of my R2 cousins have red hair? Interesting about three variants and that two are old and one (histidine red) is not. Do they know if there is a relationship between histidine red and L21?

I don't know. I have the tryptophan red variant, and I read in SNPedia that is the most common one in Ireland.

I'm not sure where they came up with that "70,000 years old" stuff. I take all that with a large grain of salt.