Can you get hair genetics from your fathers side.

[sylent]

Ok well on my moms side of the family every guy had male pattern baldness theres no question (although the guys Im talking about are her dad and her uncles, she has no brothers). My dads side is ok for the most part, although two of my uncles are bald and one is an Norwood 2.5-3 at 30 the rest (including my dad) are solid Norwood 1-2s.

Now I know for a fact that my hair is nothing like my moms side. Its thick and blonde while men on my moms side generally had thin and dark hair. My hair is much more like my dads side. So does this mean Im guarenteed to get the hair gene from my dads side as well, or even though my hair is nothing like that of my moms side can hairloss make its way in in there.

 

[macimate]

Most guys I know, that have a father with good hair, usually keep their hair aswell. Nobody can say for certain though

 

[follicle84]

I have a high hairline Norwood 2.5. That comes from my father because no one else in the family has that hairline.

 

[Rutt]

sort of related question - if none of your grandfathers / uncles / father / etc have significant hair loss , wouldn't it be extremely odd if you had male pattern baldness?

I am wondering if my hairloss isn't genetic male pattern baldness .. although it follows the same form (temple regression / diffuse thinning ..)

 

[follicle84]

Well this is the weird thing my dads dad has a good hairline so it must come from my dads mothers side. I dont really know that side of the family.

 

[follicle84]

I suffer from thinning as well which comes my mums dad who went bald in his 40's. So i have both inherited there hairloss traits lucky me. In other words based what im experiencing you can go bald from either parent.

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

The hair on both sides of my family is NW3-NW5 so I have pretty little chance of keeping it all naturally. I'm on finasteride and minoxidil now, its doing great.

I have a friend who is a diffuse NW3 and his dad is 55 with solid thick NW2 hair. He obviously got it from his mom's side.

I have two cousins (brothers). One is NW1 with perfect thick hair, the other is NW3 diffuse and will probably be NW5 by the time he's 35 (he's 28 now)

 

[baldinglikeamofo]

My dad and his entire family have fabulous hair. But I'm growing bald.

In my moms family, its 50/50

 

[LooseItAll]

Well my father is receding in a "black" way while I inherited male pattern baldness from my mom. I think that if your mom is a male pattern baldness homozygote then you have no chance. But if she is a heterozygote then you have 50% chance that you inherited the good gene.

 

[Set The Ray to Jerry]

My mom's side has FANTASTIC hair genes. All her brothers (she had 6 of them, only 3 are still living) had/have full heads of hair. Her three remaining brothers are all in their 60s and only one of them has any gray. One is a NW1 and the other two NW2s. Their father was about a NW2-2.5 when he died in his 70s.

My dad on the other hand... NW6 by his 40s. Le sigh. I definitely prove that theory wrong.

 

[baldinglikeamofo]

My mom's side has FANTASTIC hair genes. All her brothers (she had 6 of them, only 3 are still living) had/have full heads of hair. Her three remaining brothers are all in their 60s and only one of them has any gray. One is a NW1 and the other two NW2s. Their father was about a NW2-2.5 when he died in his 70s.

My dad on the other hand... NW6 by his 40s. Le sigh. I definitely prove that theory wrong.

Wow that really blows. Its possible your mom had the balding gene that her brothers never got. Is her hair thin?

 

[Thom]

It is a myth that the male pattern baldness gene is only passed from the mothers side, you can get the gene from either of your parents genetic material, it is a genetic trait you aquire it from your genes! Your genes are a combination of your mothers and fathers!

Unfortunately he speaks truth! All of my uncles on my mom's side have thick long hair and my grandfather had a thick head of hair when he died in his forties. My Dad however started losing it about my age (24) and mine seems to have started the way his did which is at the crown.

Luckily his was very slow and he didn't use the big 3 because he is very cheap so I can hold it off for a good while.

 

[TheGrayMan2001]

both my dad and my granddad seem to have lost their entire front hairline by the time they were 25-30, i'm 22 and managing to keep mine intact (it started thinning bad but im having some success with rogaine and have been on finasteride til recently, long story)

so, i don't know who's hair loss I inherited. probably some kind of combination. my dad thinned on top slowly, my mom's dad had a bald spot and eventually started thinning into a NW5.5/6. Still has hair over most of his head at 65, just really really thin and no real hairline

 

[arunavaray]

Ok.i have a question. My dad is a solid NW4 and he receded by the time he was 40. I am 22 now and *touch wood* have a pretty good hairline. My grandfather on the other hand was a NW0 with jet black hair till he was 87 and so was my great grandfather. My mothers side bodes pretty well, with no one with significant hair loss anywhere. What are my chances?

 

[baldinglikeamofo]

your androgen receptor is on your X chromosome, which you inherit from only your mother if your a guy.

If you want a genetic test to see if you will go bald, they check your X chromosome.

You may inherit your hairline and curls from your dad, but specifically, the androgen receptor gene is on your X chromosome which is from your mom.



For those people who are balding and have no hairloss on your mothers side, it may be that all her brothers got the good hair gene, but your mother did not. Check your moms hair, has she had any thinning problems?

 

[baldinglikeamofo]

Here's a quote from Dr. William Rassmans balding blog. Dr. William Rassman is one of the most respected Hair loss surgeons in the world, and was also a heart surgeon. Here is what he had to say about this:

''Is hairloss from a gene that is carried from the mothers side of the family. Is there any relation due to genetics?''


''The weighting for hair loss from the mother’s side of the family is about 51% — almost an even split.''


Source- http://www.baldingblog.com/2008/02/04/w ... loss-gene/




''The shape of the hairline is determined largely by your sex. Female hairlines are concave (rounded corners) while male hairlines are convex (receded corners). The hairline, like the hair loss on the rest of the scalp, is inherited from either side.''

Where is Dr. Rassman's source?

Where is the science behind the percentages?

Genetic testing done by Hair dx is endorsed by doctors and science. They test the X chromosome inherited from only your mother if you are a male.

http://www.hairdx.com/bosley/FAQs.aspx

I've heard the statement inherited from BOTH, but never have I seen concrete science behind it.

 

[malo]

I am 56 years old with a large family (brothers and cousins) and I have seen both the maternal grandfathers hair genetics carried down to his grandchildren and have seen an equal number of relatives with the exact same genetic characteristics as their fathers. In the same immediate family.

the coin can flip in either direction. I have also heard from a lot of doctors that the chances are slightly higher from the mothers side than the fathers 51% vs 49%.

The hair Dx test is a good predictor but not an absolute.