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Each of the pigments, eumelanin and phaeomelanin, has a "default" color that can be modified by various genes.

Eumelanin is, by default, black pigment but variation in color occurs because genes modify eumelanin to create other colors such as liver(brown), blue (grey), or isabella (pale brown).

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