1 Temperate highland tropical climate with dry winters (Cwb, Cwc) is a type of climate characteristic of the highlands inside the tropics of Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Madagascar, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, but it is also found in central Argentina, outside the tropics.
Like the earwax glands, the mammary glands are also a form of the apocrine gland and express the ABCC11 gene. The C variant of ABCC11 associated with wet type earwax is also associated with colostrum secretion from the mammary glands (4).
Image copyright Science Photo Library. Asian and non-Asian ears produce different types of earwax according to scientists at the Monell Institute in Philadelphia. Chromosome 16 is home to the wet or dry gene for earwax - with the wet variant dominating.