what causes people to get freckles? is it in their gene?

Question: what causes people to get freckles? is it in their gene?
- Keywords:
  freckles,
  genes,
  skin
Asked by werewolvesrock2002 to Del, Catherine, John, Mo Rassul on 19 Mar 2014.
- Catherine Mansfield answered on 19 Mar 2014:
  
  Freckles are darker spots on the skin caused by a pigment called melanin and they tend to get darker when we have been in the sun. They can be caused by either a gene (the same gene which causes red hair) or by too much time spent in the sun.

Question: what causes people to get freckles? is it in their gene?