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Scientists say redheads don't feel pain the same as other women

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Professor Irene Tracey , dubbed the Queen of Pain , says geneticists are getting closer to understanding why redheads have a lower tolerance to pain caused by heat or low temperatures.

But she added that the research was challenging because pain is subjective.

Redheads are rare less than 2 per cent of the global population and are prime subjects for research.

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