Newsletter

Health Reporter

Ubelacker, Sheryl

2008

Overview

Two groups of international researchers, including one team with members from Canada, have independently found a region of DNA that appears to increase some men's susceptibility to male pattern baldness. Scientists have long known there is a genetic variant passed from mothers to sons via the X chromosome that causes men to start losing their hair by the time they reach middle-age.

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