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Nature Genetics 38, 324–330 (1 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1733

A SNP in the ABCC11 gene is the determinant of human earwax type

Koh-ichiro Yoshiura , Akira Kinoshita , Takafumi Ishida , Aya Ninokata , Toshihisa Ishikawa , Tadashi Kaname , Makoto Bannai , Katsushi Tokunaga , Shunro Sonoda , Ryoichi Komaki , Makoto Ihara , Vladimir A Saenko , Gabit K Alipov , Ichiro Sekine , Kazuki Komatsu , Haruo Takahashi , Mitsuko Nakashima , Nadiya Sosonkina , Christophe K Mapendano , Mohsen Ghadami , Masayo Nomura , De-Sheng Liang , Nobutomo Miwa , Dae-Kwang Kim , Ariuntuul Garidkhuu , Nagato Natsume , Tohru Ohta , Hiroaki Tomita , Akira Kaneko , Mihoko Kikuchi , Graciela Russomando , Kenji Hirayama , Minaka Ishibashi , Aya Takahashi , Naruya Saitou , Jeffery C Murray , Susumu Saito , Yusuke Nakamura & Norio Niikawa

Human earwax consists of wet and dry types. Dry earwax is frequent in East Asians, whereas wet earwax is common in other populations.