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pheomelanin

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pheomelanin
yellow to red-brown pigment produced by melanocytes. See also eumelanin.


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In the past, lasers could only work on dark eumelanin, responsible for brown or black hair, and not pheomelanin, which produces blonde and red hair.
In the past, lasers could only work on dark eumelanin, responsible for brown or black hair, and not pheomelanin, which produces blonde and red hair.
Hair colour at birth depends upon how much of the two types of melanin - Eumelanin and Pheomelanin - they produce.
 
 
 
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