What race has dry earwax?

Dry earwax, typical in East Asians and Native Americans, is light-colored and flaky, while earwax found in Caucasian and African groups is darker, wetter and, a new study shows, smellier.
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What races have dry earwax?

Dry earwax is found in 80-95% of people of East Asian descent, but in less than 3% of people of European or African descent. This distinct geographic distribution of earwax type provides clues about early human migration patterns.
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Does everyone have dry earwax?

Earwax type: The myth

Some people have earwax that is wet, sticky and yellow or brown; other people's earwax is dry, crumbly and grayish. Variation at a single gene determines which kind of earwax you have; the allele for wet earwax is dominant over the allele for dry earwax.
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What race produces the most earwax?

White men produce more odorous earwax than East Asian men

East Asian and Native American people were already known to have a form of the ABCC11 gene that causes the dry type of earwax and produces less underarm body order, compared with other ethnicities.
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Is dry ear wax genetic?

If you have dry earwax, it's because both of your parents passed a "dry" version of the gene on to you. Wet earwax is a dominant trait, and dry is recessive. Scientists think the dry earwax type became common in ancient northeast Eurasia and spread to East Asia and the Americas.
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Do Indian people have dry earwax?

Dry earwax, typical in East Asians and Native Americans, is light-colored and flaky, while earwax found in Caucasian and African groups is darker, wetter and, a new study shows, smellier.
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Do South Asians have wet earwax?

Earwax comes in two types, wet and dry. The wet form predominates in Africa and Europe, where 97 percent or more of the people have it, and the dry form among East Asians, while populations of Southern and Central Asia are roughly half and half.
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Why do different races have different ear wax?

"The difference between [the earwax] is caused by a single gene in the genome. And a change in that single gene gives you different earwax and different underarm odor," Preti explains.
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What is Chinese ear picking?

The ear-picking process is often described as an 'ear massage' in China as the movements of the tool stimulate acupressure points inside the customers' ears.
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Is dry earwax better?

Healthy dry earwax does fall out of the ear better than wet earwax, and it is effective at preventing ear infections. However, it's still important to keep your ears clean because dry earwax flakes can build up over time and cause a blockage.
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Who has ABCC11 gene?

ABCC11: the “no body odor gene”

Genetic variants that cause a loss of function of the ABCC11 gene are very common among East Asian populations (80-90% of the population). In other population groups, it is rare to have no body odor. In fact, only around 2% of Caucasians carry the 'no body odor' version of the gene.
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What does dry flaky earwax mean?

White, flaky earwax indicates you lack a body-odor producing chemical. Dark-colored, sticky earwax indicates you should probably use deodorant.
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Do Asians have hard earwax?

The answer is partly in your heritage. A new study reveals that the gene responsible for the drier type originated in an ancient northeastern Asian population. Today, 80 to 95 percent of East Asians have dry earwax, whereas the wet variety is abundant in people of African and European ancestry (97 to 100 percent).
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Which race has the strongest body odor?

Although there is some controversy on the subject of "racial" variation in body odor, it is determined that African blacks probably produce the greatest amount of apocrine sweat, which is the known substrate for axillary odor.
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How do Asians remove ear wax?

While cotton swabs are the norm in the West, in many parts of East Asia, it's common to use ear scoops – a long, thin tool with one tip flattened into a little spoon – to tease out excess ear wax. My Chinese mother had a bamboo one when I was growing up, though I don't remember her using it often on us kids.
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What is a Viking ear spoon?

An ear scoop (or ear spoon) was a common personal hygiene tool, used for cleaning out the ears. Ear spoons are known from Roman times onwards. They are very common finds on Viking Age sites, suggesting that people took this aspect of personal hygiene very seriously.
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Do races smell different?

For example, a major contributor to axillary odor, E-3M2H, was significantly higher in African-Americans when compared to Caucasians. In addition, there were significant differences across donor groups in the number of individuals who produced detectable levels of 3H3M, with African-American > Caucasian > East Asian.
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Why does wet earwax smell?

Anaerobic bacteria, that means the organism doesn't require oxygen to thrive, tend to emit a foul odor that can make earwax smell bad. A bad smell can also mean an infection is causing middle ear damage. You might notice your balance is off and there is ringing or other phantom noises in the affected ear.
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Do Vietnamese people have dry earwax?

South-East Asians have 'dry' earwax, as determined by the ABCC11 gene. This is the same gene that makes their sweat have no odour. Just because Vietnamese people go around with sweaty shirts, doesn't necessarily mean you should... And just because they get their ears cleaned, doesn't mean you should.
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Do Koreans smell armpits?

Smelly genes

"This key gene is basically the single determinant of whether you do produce underarm odor or not," Day said. While only 2 percent of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits, most East Asians and almost all Koreans lack this gene, Day told LiveScience.
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Do I have ABCC11?

The gene variant is known as ABCC11 and the study authors said that the consistency of earwax is a good indication of those who have it. People who have dry earwax as opposed to sticky earwax are highly likely to have the ABCC11 variant and therefore do not produce under arm body odour.
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Why do I have no ear wax?

Some ears produce no ear wax which results in dry and itchy ear skin. Sometimes people compulsively clean their ears and dry them out by removing the natural wax. Dry ears tend to accumulate flakes of dry dead skin. For people who just lack ear wax, occasional insertion of a few drops of vegetable oil can be helpful.
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What is the white flaky stuff in my ears?

Seborrheic dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin condition. It causes flaky, white to yellowish scales to form on oily areas such as the scalp, face, or inside the ear. It can occur with or without reddened skin.
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What causes hard ear wax?

Earwax that picks up a lot of debris or sits in the ear canal for a long time can get hard and dry, so it's more likely to cause a blockage. Conditions that produce a lot of dry, flaking skin, like eczema, can also result in hard earwax.
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