When Looking At Relatives (seven Words Now)

[Raphael13]

So we all know hairloss is more complicated than just looking at your father or very close relatives.
But for men, is the father still the strongest link? What I mean is, if your father is bald or has a more severe hair thinning, but the rest of your relatives (grandfathers, uncles etc) has decent amount of hair, do you still run a bigger risk of losing hair because your father has?

Is the father still the biggest factor even if we know that you can inherit it from more or less any relatives you have?

 

[Michael1986]

Hair loss often skips generations, and can sometimes appear out of nowhere. In my opinion, however, the order of significance from strongest to weakest among male members of previous generations is as follows: father > maternal grandfather > paternal grandfather > maternal uncles > paternal uncles > other relatives.

The person who transmits more genetic information determining hair loss than anyone else is your mother, but because she is female, she can't have male-pattern baldness herself. She can have female-pattern baldness though, and if she has this, it significantly increases your chances of developing male-pattern baldness, at least according to one study I came across.

 

[Raphael13]

One thing I've also noticed (this is just my observation and it's not a fact, but still something I've noticed among friends and people I know) is that the first son usually gets the bad hair genes while the second son don't get it at all, or at least not as early. This is something I've seen on at least 5 people here in my area. The oldest brother (even if he is just 1-2 years older) is bald, while the younger brother has a perfect norwood 1.

I am the oldest male of my siblings so I really hope this isnt true haha!