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Baldness Gene Discovered — 1 In 7 Men "At Risk"
FiReaNGeL writes "Researchers conducted a genome-wide association study of 1,125 Caucasian men who had been assessed for male pattern baldness. They found two previously unknown genetic variants on chromosome 20 that substantially increased the risk of male pattern baldness. They then confirmed these findings in an additional 1,650 Caucasian men. 'If you have both the risk variants we discovered on chromosome 20 and the unrelated known variant on the X chromosome, your risk of becoming bald increases sevenfold. What's startling is that one in seven men have both of those risk variants.'" So maybe gene therapy will finally have a real purpose.
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I hope I'm not the only one misreading the title as "Badness gene found".
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This is un-American! This is going to kill jobs, because wig makers will go out of business! Damn commie scientists!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
We could use some of that gene therapy on the 21st chromosome as well. In fact, I'd rather see work there. Though it wouldn't likely be as profitable...
I don't see any mention of the "main" male hormone testosterone, in the article. From what I have read in the past, even if you are genetically predisposed to lose your hair, if you don't have enough testosterone, you won't.
Says the haired guy. Down with haired people! Rise my brethren and let our bald heads shine under the sun...
With a bald pate, you'd have a better platform to mount a black silicon solar cap to power your wireless cranial Internet connection. C'mon, geeks, see the possibilites here! When life hands you shit, make shit sandwiches!
My understanding (and my observation, for that matter) is that roughly 50% of men end up going bald. So how is it news that 1 in 7 men have both of these traits?
BTW, here's a bonus hint to help you find those young guys that are already going bald - look for baseball caps being worn backward. Although a completely shaved head (on a white guy, anyway) is a dead giveaway as well, and gaining in popularity as an alternative to the baseball cap.
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If it's not, then it's awfully discriminatory to try to 'fix' it. Isn't there a genetic cause for black skin too? How bad would the summary be if we replaced "male pattern baldness" with "black skin" or "homosexuality"? Why is it ok for baldness?
I was going to state that in my original post but I left it out.
I'm probably not in the risk zone for being completely bald but the risk is there, this based on my parents, uncles & grandfathers.
I still don't think it's such a big deal. If I had to choose between the cure for cancer being found earlier and having to go without hair for the rest of my life, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
About 20 years ago, I could see that I was going to go bald like my dad did, and I decided to just live with it. No drugs, plugs, or rugs.
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Plenty of tang - if you have a large bulge in your pants.
It is far better if the bulge is made by a fat wallet, btw.
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Actually baldness is important. Yes most people see it from the shallow POV but being bald puts you at a higher risk of skin cancer. Sure you can always wear a hat but that's not always possible.
Also balding and testosterone levels are linked so this research could also effect that which has a greater impact on men's health so while it's very possible this came about out of shallowness in men the end result could mean much more.
Of course, I'd argue that you're never sure where science is going to go, so pursuing different avenues is important, even if it seems a little less useful or even vain. In this case, I could foresee a situation where finding a solution to a rather simple problem, baldness, could help develop methods that would eventually be useful for dealing with cancer and Alzheimer's, which I can only imagine would be more complex to deal with. Also, you can't forget that its not like the entire community focuses on one topic at a time. Parallel research in separate but related areas tend to feedback off of each other; having too many people working on the same thing can at times only slow it down, since so much time is wasted either reinventing the wheel multiple times, or trying to keep things organized.
First they find the monogomy gene and then they find the baldness gene. How much longer before women insist on genetic pre-screening before they put out?
we all know what will happen if we let our scientists focus on hair-loss
Because baldness research and treatment is a multi-million (if not billion) dollar industry. It's sort of like asking "who would market Viagra?" that flashes the big *DUH* factor.
Face it. Anything sex related and superficial is a huge money maker. Investors would be retarded not to tap into these markets.
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Sure, all research is good, but really - who as a kid thinks "I want to cure baldness"? Really, aren't there more pressing areas for research money?
All those cures for baldness...will we finally be rid of their purveyors? Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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They could.
And people could spend their money on more important things than luxury cars and big TVs.
People want them though and they want a cure for baldness.
Works for me, and it's a real cheap haircut.
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And they found the premature ejaculation gene.
Such important stuff! And people were complaining about pink ribbons a little while back, about how research is so female oriented...yeah.
It's the only way. A lot of balding celebrities are considered sexy. Absolutely all of them have extremely short hair.
God only made so many beautiful heads; the others he covered with hair.
Whatever treatment they come up with, will probably end up doing a better job treating yeast infection.
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Everyone knows baldness is caused by your heading banging on the headboard during sex. I've been trying hard to work on a shiny patch on top of my head, but I seem to be in the wrong company here for that.
Not many people change color with age.
Those that do are real weirdos - look at MJ.
Being gay is a bit closer. Some people just don't care but for most there's a phase of acceptance and some spend their whole lives fighting it (and making themselves very unhappy in the process).
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Reading your comment brings up images from an old comedy western where a tribesman raises his tomahawk while grabbing the hair of his adversary, the toupee comes off the guys head and the tribesman dances about in loud celebration holding the toupee up as a sign of his victory.
It's not a defect, it's a feature!
That's what I'm going for....
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should be shot. With all the baldness genes. Then we'll laugh too.
They were right - the revolution did not get televised. It was posted on YouTube instead. All in 120 characters. SLOOSH!
Now all we need is gene therapy for Male Pig Syndrome.
... Braincap or Braincop?
"If I had to choose between the cure for cancer being found earlier and having to go without hair for the rest of my life, I'd do it in a heartbeat."
Yes, but which one would you choose? Which one would you choose?!
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If I had to choose between the cure for canceer being found earlier and having to go without hair for the rest of my life AND keeping my hair.
I'd choose to go without my hair.
So the hair in my nose and ears starts falling out? I would pay for that gene therapy. Or how about a replacement for this endless bikini waxing sessions. Genes, the final frontier...
and I say it is a waste of money. I d not care that I am bald. I do not care if others are bald. I used to have a lot of hair. Now I don't. Started pretty you to get a higher and higher implant. I would not care if I would loose the rest or if it stays like I have it now. It only becomes an issue if you make it an issue.
To me people who are doing comb overs, buy wigs, hairtonic, have implants and what not because they are bald are wasting their time and money. People doing studies on it should be trying to figure out not how to get hair back, but how to let people accept that they and others are bald. That would be like having a cure, instead of taking away the symptoms.
(Obviously if you have a bad scars and such, this might be somewhat different, but I am talking about standard baldness)
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All I have to say is "REALLY?"
Thank you.
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Can't they focus the research on something more important than baldness?
How many beautiful scientists with a full head of hair have you seen?
"So maybe gene therapy will finally have a real purpose."
If you take a look at advertising, sales and profit margins, as well as how fast a drug can go from one prescribed use, through clinical testing to an entirely different use which used to be a side effect, and then on to over-the-counter sales (higher profit margins, due to no insurance discounts), you can only come to one conclusion: the most important pharmaceutical developments are directed towards boners and baldness.
And people say women are vain.....
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I myself have eaten pretty poorly at times in my life, and that seems to be when my hair line begins to retreat the most prominently. The worst was when I weighed the least, and at 6'3" 165 lbs trying to be a vegan for the gf my hair line crawled back almost a full inch in 6 months, along with my first job; graveyard sysadmin and a few rough times in my life I have seen my hair come and go like the rest of you. The one thing that I can recommend eating 3-4 times a week is an egg, I like mine mixed with frozen veggies curry and some hot sauce. You know the old wives tail about giving dogs a 'shiny coat', well imho it works for human folk as well. Some people that think they are eating healthy aren't and some people don't realize how unhealthy the processed crap they are eating really is. Hey, I eat a hamburger or two a week from fast food places too (usually Burgerville), but that is a 'hamburger with double mustard' not the 1/4lb one with cheese, avocado and chili. I am glad for some of you that this economic downturn is letting you take a new look at life and getting realistic about the crap you put in your body, how that affects your well being and you will be surprised how much easier it is to be happier with it.
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Usually these things work the other way around. As in "researchers looking for heart attack alleviation drugs stumble upon boner maker, make a killing selling blue pills".
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Good point and one a lot of balding guys fail to realize. If you don't look good or can't pick up girls bald more than likely you won't be able to with hair either. 'Sexy' has nothing to do with the hair on your head.
Both my grandfathers were bald. My father isn't and I am almost. I still do not see it as a risk that needs to be alterd in such a way that it doesn't happen anymore.
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They need to find the genes that cause bald men to spend hundreds or even thousands on a toupee that looks like a dyed dead rat while insisting that it looks real and that people can't tell.
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Since Captain Picard is bald in the 23rd century it appears this idea went nowhere.
As a man "cursed" with male pattern baldness, I'll say here that going bald had a significant effect on my social standing, but not in the way you'd expect. Before, I had a thick mop of hair that would never comb right. After I started balding, I started shaving my head every morning. The general consensus among my acquaintances is that I look better now than I did before I was balding. It helps tremendously, of course, that Smallville is as popular a TV show as it is these days.
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This puts us one step away from discovering how baldness leads men to become financial analysts!
Grandpa told me that God made just so many perfect heads..... the rest he covered with hair.
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Ummm, and how is a shit sandwich better than shit? Are you perhaps running for government (after all, they often seem to "resolve" shitty situations by creating different forms of shitty situations).
Hair challenged, please.
As somebody who is inflicted with an increasingly receding hairline, I'd have to say that a "picard" (or hell, full baldness, even Jean-Luc had *some* hair) is probably an improvement. Trying to find the right haircut and style to adjust for receding sidelines is a real annoyance. I'd be tempted to shave the whole damn thing off, if not for the fact that I've seen others do so and then have the same hassles dealing with the parts that come back...
Well, I've never seen somebody change from being "white" to being black (though I suppose in odd Michael Jackson like cases, it can go the other way).
The eventual change from full-haired to bald is a lot different that being born with certain characteristics. Are we going to next argue that having a strong predisposition for cancer shouldn't be "fixed" because that's the way you started genetically?
Ah, now I see. You have chosen ... wisely.
I may be vain in many ways (or at least a few), but the obsession with hair is one I am happy to laugh at. But then, my hairline's been retreating since before I was 12, so that could just be reaction formation ;)
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Look if you are starting to go bald you had might as well
get used to it because no matter what you
eat or do your hair is as good as gone.
You will not mind being bald anyhow it makes
life much simpler. I have my head shaved to the
skin every month or two. No need for shampoo
conditioner and all that crap just rub a bar
of soap across like the rest of your body
an you are good to go.
I'm trying to figure out your poem. There doesn't appear to be any consistent rhythm, nor do the words for which you chose to end each line rhyme or even come close to rhyming. There's no significant use of metaphor, imagery, and so on. Can you help?
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It's nature's way of telling a man to hurry up and settle down with a woman instead of being a playboy all his life. If you're still acting the playboy while your hairline is receding, the pressure's on to find a mate that you want to raise kids with. Hence, the baldness gene remains in the gene pool. That's my theory anyway.
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Yup. The key is to note that the extra gene is quite common, so is not disabling, and probably has advantages. At a guess, it will be linked to increased testosterone. It would possibly be just as valid to call it the "Road Rage Gene". Nor is that a bad thing. Stupid on a road, but a lot of people respond positively to having aggressive defenders around them. (Ok, call it the Pit Bull gene.)
So having isolated out an important gene, and hopefully setting up a test for it, the next bit of research can be into finding out what else it is associated with. Should all vice-presidents be expected to carry it?
On the other hand, the baldest guy I know (for his age) is mild mannered, intelligent, strong in opinions but polite, and great to work with. So all this testosterone theorizing may be so much crap. It may be associated with testosterone tolerance. Now that is worth researching.
when exactly did baldness become a risk? it's not a curse, it's a privilege.
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Where would we be today if it weren't for Bald's Rights patriots, such as Lex Luther and Kevin Spacey? Is this some vein attempt to undo everything they've done?
...hair raising!!
Don't forget your hat.
being bald puts you at a higher risk of skin cancer.
So does being white-skinned btw :)
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I'm quite annoyed with paniq for scooping me with this post.
God made some perfect heads. The rest he covered with hair.
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Now if you have Myopia, like me, this IS what is important. We are much smarter that you balding scums.
And I still have my hair, although it is turning silver, but I still have it.
Now I have a reason to be special today.
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Ah finally, we can use gene therapy to cure all those afflicted people. Now everyone can be bald!
Why is wearing a hat not always possible? You've lost me. In hot weather I've sometimes improvised and used towels, cardboard boxes or bags. But a hat by any other name would smell as sweet.
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Not linked to increased testosterone. Testosterone doesn't cause baldness, DHT does (which is a hormone with similar effects), the other side of the story being a gene that affects the hair follicle's susceptibility to be shrunk by DHT.
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For one thing, we do. If everyone researched only the most pressing and urgent medical issues though, two things would happen. One: more wasted effort as multiple labs would be researching each subject. Splitting up ensures more ground covered in shorter time. Two: potential dead ends. We might not yet know enough to cure AIDS or cancer. A breakthrough in baldness research might potentially help us stumble onto a vital clue that we then later use to cure cancer. In researching it, it's possible we'll discover something new about endocrinology and the uptake of hormones that will be relevant to another disease that is affected by hormone uptake, such as breast or testicular cancer. If we only do direct investigations of cancer though, we wouldn't find it.
It's actually closer to 27% or so for "premature" baldness... that is, guys who aren't 60 years old with thinning hair. Not that it's definitive, but here's the Wiki page on the topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldness
First paragraph gives you the numbers.
Baldness is often cited in psych studies as one of those weird cultural perception items that people accept as very normal but which is actually more uncommon than you think.
Next time your in a public environment look around and do a count of the 20-50 men in the room who have hair loss (not a very slight receding of the hairline, but actual loss). You'll see that the majority of guys actually have their hair. It's weird when you realize just how much less common premature baldness is than you think it is.
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After I started balding, I started shaving my head every morning. The general consensus among my acquaintances is that I look better now than I did before I was balding.
I've had the same experience. It's also a lot more convenient. I really dreaded it until I saw for myself how much better it is.
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I recommend the HeadBlade for the top of your head (if you have any hair left there). Using a traditional razor for the top of my head was starting to give me RSI, and the HeadBlade does a better job up there too. I still use a regular razor for the back and sides, because it works better for me for some reason.
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Can't they focus the research on something more important than baldness?
Because it's not a simple matter of reaching a certain quantity of "man-months" applied to (for example) cure cancer. Our level of technological advancement simply isn't to the point where a Mongol Hordes approach is going to be effective. In most cases, we don't even know what we need to learn before we figure out which way to look for a cure for (x). Who knows, perhaps a technique for combating baldness may hold the key to curing diabetes.
The classic answer to all this is, "it takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women you assign to the task"
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
The cure for male baldness has been known for quite some time, perhaps millennia. The cure comes with side affects, though. It's been long known that testosterone causes male pattern baldness, remove the source of that hormone and you reduce the chances of baldness immensely. That's right gentlemen, eunuchs do not go bald.
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How can it be shallow if (as most people would agree) a woman going bald is much more traumatic? Nobody tells her to "just get over it".
Either sexism is OK, or the things that people call "shallow" really aren't. You can't have it both ways.
I suggest you read Slashdot
People who get worked up about going bald have issues. Go bald and don't worry about it.
Frag the combo over and squirrel wearing goat fragers.
However, is there any progress on that stupidity gene?
what if profits from curing baldness pay for the research that cures cancer?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Since Captain Picard is bald in the 23rd century it appears this idea went nowhere.
I'm sorry, but Captain Picard was born in 2305. That's the 24th century. Perhaps your typo was merely the result of brain overheating due to hair overgrowth. I suggest you shave your head.
...losing my hair only made me look tougher and has saved me a LOT of money on haircuts. So I really don't care that much about it except for one thing:
I live in Texas. It gets HOT. Damned direct sunlight will fry my head like an egg. So I have to wear hats. Absolutely have to. That gets annoying sometimes though.
So if I were to pursue some sort of remedy, it would be because I hate wearing hats all the time to cover my head from the Texas sun. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it at all... still, if it's expensive (which you know it will be) then I still wouldn't worry about it -- hats are bound to be cheaper.
why isn't this money being spent on something more important? It's just hair!
Just because I doubt other people will be afraid/unwilling to present the "shallow" point of view: What's wrong with wanting to look attractive? It's easy to condemn people for being superficial when you're looking pretty good, but not everyone is so lucky.
Forgetting the health ramifications, just try getting a job when you've lost some of your front teeth. Try going on a date after losing an ear in an accident. There are people who have skin conditions, body odors, and various other problems that you could describe as "superficial" because they aren't "serious health issues". Part of the problem is that a lot of the rest of the world is superficial, and you will be judged by how you look. Beyond that, it's can be emotionally crushing just to look in the mirror.
Now, of course there are people who go too far. People develop eating disorders or have excessive plastic surgery in misguided attempts to look good. Also, losing your hair isn't exactly on the same level as losing an ear. But really, problems like hair loss or acne can cause a big hit to the ego, and being able to solve those problems can be a surpassing improvement in quality of life. I could change how people treat you and respond to you, and even improve how you see yourself. It may be shallow, but it's not trivial.
You'll have to rely on Viagra and money like everyone else.
That was solely so he would be more aerodynamic while traveling through the vacuum of space.
Well... as I understand it, the theory goes that some aspect of DHT's binding to the dermal papilla of the hair follicle stimulates an autoimmune response. This autoimmune response damages/shrinks the follicle, causing progressive damage, and eventually baldness.
Ack... daily? How long does that take you?
They spend A LOT OF MONEY on Caner and heart disease.
Nothing wrong with a FEW companies making money and jobs fixing something that ANNOYS women and men.
I think it'll be great if they find a cure for baldness -- though I can certainly think of a few hundred actually serious medical problems that probably deserve more attention than what is, after all, a harmless cosmetic defect.
Of course, when the day comes that I can grow my hair back, that's only half the battle. Even with a full head of hair, the average 28-year-old woman is still going to think of me as a creepy old guy when I make a pass at her. ;)
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what's wrong with being able to have more control over it? A lot of people here have made the case that we should concentrate on accepting baldness instead of changing it. But is that so different than accepting beards instead of developing a shaver?
Whether it's a matter of personal taste, societal standards, or inherent genetic cues - where is the downside to people having more control over how they appear visually to themselves and others?
Yes, it's possible to go too far with this as it is with anything. Spending $300,000.00 on an outfit instead of just dressing nicely, devoting your life to the gym, or jumping into not-ready-for-prime-time plastic surgery techniques (ex: Micheal Jackson). But just because you *can* go overboard with something, doesn't mean that's your only choice.
Frankly, where technology sits right now I think we'd be better off having stayed with powdered wigs for the time being. You get any hair style you want, and everyone does it so there's no out-cast factor. But we should be working towards having the level of genetic control over our hair that people want. Both in terms on more on our heads, and less pretty much everywhere else. There's a reason that the classic Greek statues bore zero resemblance hair-wise to either Dr. Katz or that fat guy from the Borat movie.
All men in my family are going bald at 20/25 with the same pattern. The news for us is that we can now safely stop trying shampoo/massage and whatnot : we are screwed.
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True that. In the case of Patrick Stewart and Bruce Willis, it probably helps that they both play alpha males, and are highly successful in real life.
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A razor is a bit extreme in my opinion. Each to their own though.
I have a nice set of clippers. The whole head, beard included, gets done daily at about 1-2mm. Only takes a few minutes.
No one, including me, gives a flying monkeys about baldness. I care more about the speed in which it grows more than anything else. I can't believe baldness is a big issues for people at all. I think they probably have other 'issues' and baldness is an easy target.
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There's nothing wrong with it but I can understand why people would be annoyed that things like Cancer and AIDS aren't cured yet money is being spent on things that don't matter for survival. All just that studying baldness has more benefits than people think.
Hair challenged, please.
Hell No. We're normal, it's those non-slapheads who are Hair Challenged.
And don't get me started on Syrup wearers. (Syrup of Figs = Wigs)
I can understand why people would be annoyed that things like Cancer and AIDS aren't cured yet money is being spent on things that don't matter for survival.
Sure, I can understand that too, but I don't think they're entirely correct to be annoyed. Quality of life is an important issue. Living longer isn't everything. How you live-- being able to live well and happily-- is important too.
And based on Captain Kirk's hairpiece, it seems wig tech didn't progress much either.
In all seriousness, this is "good research" in the sense it is an easy to identify condition with a harmless negative outcome. It is easy to identify someone who is bald or balding where you don't need extensive tests to confirm it. It is "easy" to identify if the treatment is working or not. Are they still bald? Did they have more or less hair? Importantly, baring "gene damage" if the treatment fails baldness is a fairly harmless to be stuck with unlike cancer, neurological, or any other things gene therapy may cure but fail to succeed.
So I'm all for baby steps. Although not a "plague of humanity", I would rather they perfect the techniques and treatments on simple stuff like balding before going after the big stuff.
I started going bald quite young (mid 20s) and now (late 20s) I have little left up top (but still pretty full back and sides). I ALSO don't seem to grow much facial or body hair (if I wanted to grow a beard, it'd take me MONTHS - literally) - even the moustache I have (which took about 5 weeks to grow properly and I've had for about a year) is a lot thinner and scragglier than most people's after about a week (yeh, I'm going to shave it off soon since it looks sort of silly).
Based on a sample set of one, I'd say there is at least some relation there.
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My reading of the abstract [1] indicates that they have found 5 SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) on chromosome 20p11 that show a linkage to baldness. There is NO mention of a *gene* or genes in that region (though one could presumably look up candidates in one of the human genome browsers). If the genes are of unknown function (or worse yet are gene regulatory regions, or siRNAs or still something else which is not a classical gene) then it will still take a fair amount of work (years unless we get very lucky) linking that chromosome region to the biochemistry involved.
If you are "approving" topics for science.slashdot.org you at should at least know enough about the topic (genomics, gene defects, etc.) to tell when a submission has folded, spindled or mutilated the actual science involved.
[1] http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ng.228.html
It helps tremendously, of course, that Smallville is as popular a TV show as it is these days.
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I'm not balding, but I think I'd go The Apprentice route with the comb-over.
Men, do not fear the razor. The Gillete Mach 3 is your friend.
Personally, I prefer my cordless titanium clippers. I'm able to embrace my hair loss while simultaneously paying homage to Hank Paulson. We all know how popular he is today.
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You sir, are deprived.
You have missed out on all of the fun of spraying shoe polish on your bald spot and having it make black spots on your collar.
You have have missed the sheer joy of having Rogaine roll without effect across your bald spot raising only the thinnest of peach fuzz to splash with joy upon your ears and neck. You have missed the strange furry pelt it makes down one's back and the warm smile your now furry ears bring to cat loving women.
But seriously, after all of that, I put the sucker to work on my show. When I'm too lazy to animate myself and don't have a Batman mask around I appear via my talking bald spot! (and no, I'm not the one who put the studio camera on the ceiling, I just figure it's there, why not?
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is futile...
Be slick... Become "Locutus of Borg"... (Or, if you prefer, emulate Patrick Stewart... well, at least the baldness part of his life, hehehe..... )
Anyway, when i read:
"About a third of all men are affected by male pattern baldness by age 45. The condition's social and economic impact is considerable: expenditures for hair transplantation in the United States alone exceeded $115 million (U.S.) in 2007"
I thought when expenditures reach $115 BILLION, we might be facing a hair-raising national bailout... Or, would that call a hairy fallout?
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Surely you mean WILL be born? Will have been born? Will have been going to be born?
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