Uncombable hair gene discovered

Some children suffer from completely tangled hair, which cannot be combed at all. In German, the phenomenon bears the apt name “uncombable hair syndrome” or even “Struwwelpeter syndrome”. Researchers have identified mutations in three genes that are responsible for this.

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