Question Regarding The Genetics Of male pattern baldness

[DMoney123]

My family has no history of balding. My dad has great hair, his dad AND mom have great hair, my mom has great hair, both her parents do aswell. The question is, how significant are the WOMEN in your family?

The only link to baldness I have is my maternal grandmother's brother. He's bald, and his kid his bald. Due to her genes coming from her father, then passed to her, then passed to my mother, then passed to me, is there any chance that could lead to baldness for me? Or does my father and maternal grandFATHER have the greatest affect?

 

[Sseoud86]

No one knows....it can skip generations and literally hit any member of a certain family. There are also people whose dad and maternal granddad and uncles be bald and get lucky and not have any hair loss.....it's a genetic lottery honestly...

 

[Mitko1]

There are multiple factors involved in pattern hair loss not only a single gene. It's all about your head shape, the size of the muscles surrounding the top of your head, how much tension they apply and where, your body's anti-inflammatory response, whether your body responds with DHT to inflammation or not, how much DHT it will send, how much testoterone to DHT you convert, how sensitive you are to this DHT(how much of it you need induce calcification and fibrosis). As you can see it is very complex. There are hormonal factors of course like your testoterone:estradiol ratio and others. Whether you keep your hair or not it's a matter of genetic lottery. You can keep Norwood 0 for life even if you have a totally bald father.

 

[Mandar kumthekar]

It mostly comes from mother ,if she is loosing hair or if her brothers are bald then things would got to south anytime for her son. The most influential gene is AR gene on chromosome X which men only get from mother.