Passage: Red hair -- Red hair (or ginger hair) occurs naturally in 1--2% of the human population. It occurs more frequently (2--6%) in people of northern or western European ancestry, and less frequently in other populations. Red hair appears most commonly in people with two copies of a recessive allele on chromosome 16 which produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.
Question: is red hair and ginger hair the same
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