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Insights in human hair curvature by proteome analysis of two distinct hair shapes

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Scalp hair is a universal human characteristic, and a wide range of hair shape and color variations exists. Although differences in human scalp hair shape are visually apparent, the underpinning molecular insights are yet to be fully explored. This work reports the determination of differences at the protein level between two distinct groups of hair shape: very straight samples versus very curly hair samples. An in-depth high resolution liquid-chromatography mass spectrometry proteome analysis study was performed on hair samples from 50 individuals (pooled in 10 × 5 samples) with very curly hair and 50 subjects with very straight hair (pooled in 10 × 5 samples) to decipher differences between the two experimental groups at the protein level. Our results demonstrate that a distinction between the two experimental groups (very straight vs. very curly) can be made based on their overall protein profiles in a multivariate analysis approach. Further investigation of the protein expression levels between these two groups pinpointed 13 unique proteins which were found to be significantly different between the two groups, with an adjusted p-value < 0.05 and a fold change of more than two. Although differences between the very curly and the very straight hair sample groups could be identified, linkage between population differences and curl phenotype is currently unknown and requires further investigation.

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  • English

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Society of Cosmetic Chemists

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Journal of Cosmetic Science

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1525-7886

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Maes, E., Bell, F., Hefer, C., Thomas, A., Harland, D., Noble, A., … Grosvenor, A. (2021). Insights in human hair curvature by proteome analysis of two distinct hair shapes. Journal of Cosmetic Science, 72(3), 249–267. https://library.scconline.org/v072n03/6

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