male pattern baldness from which side?

[tommboy2]

Which side of the family will give me male pattern baldness? As in who should I be looking at to see what my male pattern baldness will progress too... Is it my mother's dad or my father's dad and my father himself???

 

[cuebald]

both sides

 

[tommboy2]

So is there a science to it, my dad has a pretty descent hairline for 55, but my mom's dad died when he was 30 or so and his hairline was defiantly receding.

 

[Cassin]

anyone in the family tree

 

[tommboy2]

Ya but what determines if you go really bald quickly or bald really slowly? Say one parent holds onto there hair good while the other has more progressed male pattern baldness by the same age.

 

[Cassin]

Ya but what determines if you go really bald quickly or bald really slowly? Say one parent holds onto there hair good while the other has more progressed male pattern baldness by the same age.

Just your body chemistry man...don't over think it...

 

[Mr Norwoods]

male pattern baldness can strike from anywhere. My grandfather was an ultra thick NW1 at age 89 and yet my brother hit NW7 at age 20. Madness. My dad (NW5) is the only bald guy out of his six brothers. The others don't even have a trace of recession.

 

[ClayShaw]

anyone in the family tree

I'm not sure this is true.
For instance, if your dad's father's brother had an NW7, but your dad was NW3 at 55, then you can't get your grandad's brother's hairloss because it would need to be passed through your father, and your father clearly did not get it.
I might be wrong about this, but I thought balding was a dominant trait in men, so if you have it, you'll see it.

 

[Cassin]

anyone in the family tree

I'm not sure this is true.
For instance, if your dad's father's brother had an NW7, but your dad was NW3 at 55, then you can't get your grandad's brother's hairloss because it would need to be passed through your father, and your father clearly did not get it.
I might be wrong about this, but I thought balding was a dominant trait in men, so if you have it, you'll see it.

But then there is countless people who have experienced the opposite.

 

[ClayShaw]

anyone in the family tree

I'm not sure this is true.
For instance, if your dad's father's brother had an NW7, but your dad was NW3 at 55, then you can't get your grandad's brother's hairloss because it would need to be passed through your father, and your father clearly did not get it.
I might be wrong about this, but I thought balding was a dominant trait in men, so if you have it, you'll see it.

But then there is countless people who have experienced the opposite.

I'm not saying that guys who have hairy dads can't be bald, I'm just saying that bald guys who have hairy dads can't have gotten their baldness from their dad's side or else their dad would have been bald as well.
Does anyone know if baldness is dominant or recessive in men?
If its dominant, than for a man to get his hairloss pattern from his father's side would require his father to be bald also.

 

[Avery]

I'm just saying that bald guys who have hairy dads can't have gotten their baldness from their dad's side or else their dad would have been bald as well.

That is false.

 

[barcafan]

we're not f*****g geneticists here, lets stop guessing. If you have ONE bald relative from anywhere in your family, there's a chance you'll go bald. sh*t there's probably a chance you'll go bald even if theres not one single bald member of your family.

 

[Cassin]

we're not f****ing geneticists here, lets stop guessing. If you have ONE bald relative from anywhere in your family, there's a chance you'll go bald. sh*t there's probably a chance you'll go bald even if theres not one single bald member of your family.

^ right on

 

[kerzyguy]

we're not f****ing geneticists here, lets stop guessing. If you have ONE bald relative from anywhere in your family, there's a chance you'll go bald. sh*t there's probably a chance you'll go bald even if theres not one single bald member of your family.

^ right on

i hope ill be ok

 

[ClayShaw]

I'm just saying that bald guys who have hairy dads can't have gotten their baldness from their dad's side or else their dad would have been bald as well.

That is false.

So baldness is a recessive trait in men? You can carry the baldness gene but not be bald?

 

[kerzyguy]

thats what i was also saying in another post ^^

 

[s.a.f]

we're not f****ing geneticists here, lets stop guessing. If you have ONE bald relative from anywhere in your family, there's a chance you'll go bald. sh*t there's probably a chance you'll go bald even if theres not one single bald member of your family.

Exactly we all carry with us the genetics to get different cancers and diseases ect but its more prevalent in some than others. You could get cancer even if no one else in your family has had it. But if your parents had it your risk is higher than average.
And likewise even though nearly all the men in my family are bald. Theres a slim chance that if I had a son he could be lucky and escape the m.p.b gene.

 

[WhatYouEgg]

Baldness is dominant, but you can have a gene and not express it (this is what Rassman says, anyhow)