Hair Loss Is Mainly Maternal Or Not?

[Ninjarambohd]

OK. This maybe discussed before however I'm not sure if some good evidence was given. Some of these guys that I'm about to show are part of my own family and others are some turkish or middle eastern actors. Of course I've seen Orlando Bloom being mentioned a numebr of times in a few threads but I will exclude him.

These guys all have fathers who have lost their hairs. Now I'm going to be totally honest I'm not really sure about some of their maternal side of the family. See below for pictures of themselves and their fathers. So is Hair Loss more dominant on the maternal side?

Father and Son:

https://s4.postimg.org/zftmla49p/hamid-goudarzi24.jpg

Father:

https://s11.postimg.org/l25v475ir/artworks-000127227304-4dux4d-t500x500.jpg

Son:

https://s1.postimg.org/d8f1y91qn/Lxlo3q_X9_400x400.jpg

Father (Right Hand Side)

https://s12.postimg.org/8891ygslp/saadettin-erbil-802.jpg

Son:

https://s18.postimg.org/s09o19p6x/mehmet-ali-erbil-altin-kelebek-odullerini-iade-8.png

Father (With Son and His Brother' Picture Is Below)

https://s4.postimg.org/fkhvtkpkd/14099342_1763612303854167_2040828736_n.jpg

Son:

https://s4.postimg.org/6ky1bh6u5/Engin-_Aky_rek.jpg


I will add some more examples in a while. Just wanted to get some opinions about this matter.

 

[Bklyn_23]

I always heard that it was the maternal grandfather who mattered, but my grandfather had a thick NW1 until he passed away at 87. Truly wonderful hair. My maternal grandmother, however, had several brothers who all had various degrees of advanced balding. Pretty sure that's where I got it from. My father started to lose his hair too, but in his early 50's. I've been losing it since 16.

 

[Ninjarambohd]

I always heard that it was the maternal grandfather who mattered, but my grandfather had a thick NW1 until he passed away at 87. Truly wonderful hair. My maternal grandmother, however, had several brothers who all had various degrees of advanced balding. Pretty sure that's where I got it from. My father started to lose his hair too, but in his early 50's. I've been losing it since 16.

Thank you for your reply. How about your maternal uncles if you have any?

 

[Señor AIDidaS]

I've seen it defied. I have a cousin who shares my maternal grandpa who was diffuse Norwood 3 after his 40's. Guy is 50 and has some of the thickest hair I've ever seen, his hairline is better than mine as well. His older brother still has hair too but it's not as impressive.

Although it does seem to be true, at least in my mom's family, that your fathers hair genes matter less. I have 7 maternal uncles and 6 of them have full heads of hair at 60+, even though their father thinned at 40.

 

[DKC]

Its just a mix and its not about "my dad's entire male gene line had thick hair but he lost his hair at 20".

You inherit genes from both your mother and father, if you happen to have dominant genes relating to hairloss, you will probably have hair loss at some point in your life. For example, my dad started losing his hair at 40ish, but starting losing at 20, why? Because of something called gene expression, if the gene(s) for hair loss are highly expressed, you are going to lose your hair earlier and more aggressively. If you have low gene expression but still have the gene(s) for hair loss, you might start losing your hair at 60.

 

[Ninjarambohd]

Some great replies here thank you everyone. I was actually researching more into this topic and came across a study which was from April 2017 and it says that there are a lot of genes involved however chromosome which gives a lot of signals for hair loss comes from the X Chromosome. Don't know really. I mean looking at lot of guys fathers it could be true that the mothers side is to blame.

 

[shookwun]

If your father is a cue ball, chances are you will likely be one also.

 

[sunchyme1]

If your father is a cue ball, chances are you will likely be one also.

lol if your father, mother, sister, uncles, aunties, grandfathers and grandmothers are all fullheads, what are the chances then youll be a cueball?

cos thats me motherfucker

 

[shookwun]

lol if your father, mother, sister, uncles, aunties, grandfathers and grandmothers are all fullheads, what are the chances then youll be a cueball?

cos thats me motherfucker

Norwood cemetery

 

[Ninjarambohd]

If your father is a cue ball, chances are you will likely be one also.

Thanks for your response. Then how do you explain all these guys with bald fathera but they have kept their hair?

 

[sunchyme1]

Thanks for your response. Then how do you explain all these guys with bald fathera but they have kept their hair?

lucky sons of b****s

 

[Stanx22]

WOW ! That made me feel really shitty about myself because my father went bald at 35 and there's zero baldness on my mother's side, but i'm going bald at 17. ~~~ BEST LUCK EVER ~~~

 

[biddybomb]

From my observations I think it comes through a lot stronger through the mother. Know a few NW6 dads with NW0/NW1 sons in their thirties and vice versa. Full head NW1 at near 70 and balding sons in their thirties.

 

[Ninjarambohd]

Just found this from April 2017 thought I'd post it here:

It turns out that hair loss is very complicated genetically, the British team reports in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Genetics.

“In this large genome-wide association study study of male pattern baldness, we identified 287 independent genetic signals that were linked to differences in the trait,” Riccardo Marioni and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh wrote.
“The results of this study might help identify those at greatest risk of hair loss, and also potential genetic targets for intervention.”

The team studied the DNA from more than 52,000 mostly middle-aged men taking part in a gigantic British genetic experiment called BioBank.

"We identified hundreds of new genetic signals," said Saskia Hagenaars, a student who worked on the study.

Although hair loss runs strongly in families, men cannot always look at their fathers and predict their own fates, hair-wise. Some can blame their mothers, the researchers found.

The trawl though all of the mens’ genes found 40 linked with baldness on the X chromosome. The rest were scattered across the genome.

"It was interesting to find that many of the genetic signals for male pattern baldness came from the X chromosome, which men inherit from their mothers,” Hagenaars said in a statement.

Of the men in the study, 16,700 had no hair loss. Another 12,000 had slight hair loss; 14,000 had moderate hair loss and 9,800 had severe hair loss.


The researchers linked each man’s genetic pattern with the degree of hair loss.

Those with fewer-than-average hair loss genes were predictably less likely to go bald. Only 14 percent in this group were bald and 39 percent hadn’t lost any hair at all.

And 58 percent of those with the top 10 percent count of baldness genes also had some hair loss.

That makes the genetic pattern only somewhat predictive.

 

[Ninjarambohd]

Found some more examples thought I'd share:

https://s18.postimg.org/id0lhes2h/Luka-_Modric-holds-his-son-and-poses-with-his-wif.jpg

https://s4.postimg.org/trcclludp/Cez4d3w_XEAA6_CYn.jpg

https://s4.postimg.org/exxag9lil/14612503415339.jpg

https://s4.postimg.org/4as5yz2d9/19436665_663232127198898_3531861571548479488_n.jpg

 

[Bklyn_23]

Thank you for your reply. How about your maternal uncles if you have any?

I don't have any uncles on my mom's side. Just great-uncles (my grandmother's brothers), who as I mentioned were all balding. Even my grandmother was slightly afflicted by diffuse thinning like I am when she hit her 70's.

 

[moxsom]

As posted above hair loss genetics are VERY complicated. Many of these genes are on the X chromosomes but many are also not. In fact if you have a bald father you are twice as likely to be bald versus someone whose dad has hair.

This is from an old study, but it shows family relationships and your odds of balding. The higher the OR the worse your luck will be.

 

[hairblues]

WOW ! That made me feel really shitty about myself because my father went bald at 35 and there's zero baldness on my mother's side, but i'm going bald at 17. ~~~ BEST LUCK EVER ~~~

did you make sure you had all blood work done? for thyroid etc?

 

[Stanx22]

did you make sure you had all blood work done? for thyroid etc?

I'm holding hope that it may be maturing or something, but that's like 35%. I have to be ready for all the possibilities to not be disappointed.

 

[Ninjarambohd]

As posted above hair loss genetics are VERY complicated. Many of these genes are on the X chromosomes but many are also not. In fact if you have a bald father you are twice as likely to be bald versus someone whose dad has hair.

Wow thanks for this! So this means you should look at your mom first then rather than your maternal uncles or grandfather.
This is from an old study, but it shows family relationships and your odds of balding. The higher the OR the worse your luck will be.