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Ear wax revisited

Some time ago, I mentioned that wet/dry earwax is genetic. The same group appears to have now isolated the channel responsible. A SNP (rs17822931 in ABCC11), the causative allele of which is found primarily in East Asians, alters the ability to export cGMP through this channel. Neat!