What is the current thinking on the inheritance pattern of male baldness?

Subject: What is the current thinking on the inheritance pattern of male baldness?

Date: Tue May 8 23:25:05 2001
Posted by Geoffrey
Grade level: 10-12 School: Loyola High School
City: Los Angeles State/Province: California Country: U.S.A.
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 989378705.Ge

Message:


 It was our understanding that male pattern hair loss was an autosomal dominant 
pattern.  However, we heard a high school science teacher state that there was 
some new evidence from the Human Genome Project that the trait was inherited 
from the female side of the family.

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