Tour Scotland Photograph Red Haired Lass Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of a red haired lass under a brolly on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland also has a very high percentage with around 6% of the population having red hair. Previously it was estimated that red hair occurrence in Scotland was around 13%, which had been widely reported in reliable media sources. However, Dr. Jim Wilson of Britain's DNA study used a sample of 2,343 people, and found red hair occurrence of 6% in Scotland, with 35% overall carrying the gene and Edinburgh having the highest proportion of gene carriers at 40%. The largest ever study of hair colour in Scotland, which analysed over 500,000 people in 1907, found the percentage of Scots with red hair to be 5.3%. 38% of Welsh people carry the red haired gene. A 1956 study of hair colour among British army recruits found higher levels of red hair in Wales and the English Border counties.

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