Mentally disabled guy full head hair, his brothers all bald(ing)

[Fc_Bruges]

Tuesday I went to a funeral of a guy. This guy had seven brothers who were all bald or heavily balding. The man who's funeral it was, was also bald. Except one brother, he had a full head of thick hair with a perfect hairline. This brother had a mental disability due to a lack of oxygen during his birth. I think his age was around 55 or something like that.

Isn't it strange that baldness didn't strike this guy? What could be an explanation for that?

 

[zzzzz]

random distribution of genetics

 

[Quantum Cat]

maybe he doesn't produce sufficient testosterone, or some other hormonal problem. I know Downs Syndrome people have fertility issues.

 

[Fc_Bruges]

or NOFAP...

 

[minoxiDjunkie]

or maybe it was a wig

 

[Lollerme]

NOFAP proved

 

[Aesthetic]

maybe he doesn't produce sufficient testosterone, or some other hormonal problem. I know Downs Syndrome people have fertility issues.

probly this

 

[SayifDoit]

maybe he doesn't produce sufficient testosterone, or some other hormonal problem. I know Downs Syndrome people have fertility issues.

Yeah it most likely has some relation to this...

But has anyone else actually seen a family where all the men in the family are balding except one? I could imagine it's common in families where balding occurs later in life, but when you see dads who experience aggressive balding in their early 20's it effects pretty much every son in the family.

Though I could imagine a lot of these cases where the men are taking action to stop their balding by taking propecia.

 

[Rudolphus]

maybe he doesn't produce sufficient testosterone, or some other hormonal problem. I know Downs Syndrome people have fertility issues.

People with Down syndrome are just as prone to male pattern baldness as the general population. The presence of the extra 21st chromosome has no bearing one way or the other on susceptibility to male pattern baldness.

Anyway, just to point out, the disabled man that the OP was referring to was not Down syndrome, but rather he suffered from a lack of oxygen at birth. Most likely, the guy just happened to inherit a better random combination of hair genes than his brothers. It is also possible that his brothers may have all inherited a specific mutation of a single gene that he was fortunate enough to have not inherited. Biological siblings share 50% of their DNA, and it is, therefore, very possible that they can have completely different male pattern baldness outcomes, since 50% of their genes are different.

 

[Notcoolanymore]

I know Downs Syndrome people have fertility issues.

Some think bald men should have the same problem.

 

[Iopu]

I have a single brother that seems to not have gotten my families male pattern baldness. Strong norwood 1, all the others including me started receding in our early 20's.