openSNP | rs12821256

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Title	Summary
rs12821256 C/T	2x more likely to have blond hair
rs12821256 T/T	Normal
rs12821256 C/C	4x more likely to have blond hair

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Publications on this SNP on the Public Library of Science:

First Author	Title	Year of Publication	# of readers
Jiali Han	A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Alleles Associated with Hair Color and Skin Pigmentation	2008	29674
Nicholas Eriksson	Web-Based, Participant-Driven Studies Yield Novel Genetic Associations for Common Traits	2010	71111

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Publications listed by Genome.gov

First Author	Title	Journal	Publication Date	Trait	p-value	Confidence Interval
Sulem P	Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans.	Nat Genet	10/21/2007	Blond vs. brown hair color	4.0e-30	[1.86-2.92]

Name	rs12821256
Chromosome	12
Position	88934558
Weight of evidence	21

SNP rs12821256

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Genotype Frequency

Allele Frequency

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Evidence compiled by the Personal Genome Project

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