Who do you inherit it from?

[rahezy]

Today at school, we were talking and male pattern baldness came up because one of my friends just shaved his head because he was losing a lot of hair, like total diffuse thinning on the top of his head, back to front. Another friend made a cruel remark about his hairloss and knowing his father, I said that he'll look like his dad in a couple years. Then he and another friend got all crazy and were saying you inherit baldness through your mother.
I always thought it was from the father's side. I think i'm right but I just want to double check. Who do you inherit it from?

P.S. Sorry about the long story, just that some peeps can be assholes.

 

[Lizzad]

Who do you inherit it from?

Nobody really knows. Some say one can get a good idea by looking at your Mother's Father. I think the gene is passes on by one's Mother, but the chances of any specific child inheriting it is unknown....I THINK. :?

 

[Bob Booley]

you could inherit it from either side.


studies do show, however, that it more than likely comes from your moter's side.

 

[Cassin]

Who do you inherit it from?

Nobody really knows. Some say one can get a good idea by looking at your Mother's Father. I think the gene is passes on by one's Mother, but the chances of any specific child inheriting it is unknown....I THINK. :?

My grandfathers on both sides of the family had a nice thick head of hair their whole life. Only one of my uncles is losing his hair, the rest of them have no signs of male pattern baldness. My father is bald though. Very strange. male pattern baldness just seemed to kind of hopped around my family.

 

[Humpty Dumpty]

>>>Who do you inherit it from?

There is no FPB on either side of my family, no male pattern baldness on my mother's side and a fairly unremarkable history of male pattern baldness (late forties to fifties) on my father's. Apparently I don't get it from anywhere.

 

[Lizzad]

Clearly the gene can & does skip generations.

From another perspective:

My grandafthers on both sides of the family had a nice thick head of hair their whole life. Only one of my uncles is losing his hair, the rest of them have no signs of male pattern baldness. My father is bald though. Very strange. male pattern baldness just seemed to kind of hopped around my family.

A reasonable percentage of children born are not actually the child of the "supposed" father. I'm not gonna quote stats. but it's not insignificant, this clearly complicates the issue.

 

[Cassin]

A reasonable percentage of children born are not actually the child of the "supposed" father. I'm not gonna quote stats. but it's not insignificant, this clearly complicates the issue.

:shock:

 

[ShedMaster]

Clearly the gene can & does skip generations.

From another perspective:

My grandafthers on both sides of the family had a nice thick head of hair their whole life. Only one of my uncles is losing his hair, the rest of them have no signs of male pattern baldness. My father is bald though. Very strange. male pattern baldness just seemed to kind of hopped around my family.

A reasonable percentage of children born are not actually the child of the "supposed" father. I'm not gonna quote stats. but it's not insignificant, this clearly complicates the issue.

uhh.. I don't what you are used to in your country, but here in the US that really doesn't happen very often. Its not hard to tell if you inherit certain characteristics from your father, and if you can't figure out who your mother is, then... god help us all.
:sulkoff:

 

[Lizzad]

lol, it's just a side issue, but worth a mention. :lol:

 

[Stingray]

Every male in my family

 

[Lizzad]

uhh.. I don't what you are used to in your country, but here in the US that really doesn't happen very often. Its not hard to tell if you inherit certain characteristics from your father, and if you can't figure out who your mother is, then... god help us all.

The studies i read were all conducted in the USA actually and one found that almost 20% of children were not born to the husband, partner or dude who thought he was the father. In reality i'm sure that stat. is much lower, but i'd be surprised if it were below 5%. :moon:

 

[Humpty Dumpty]

>>>The studies i read were all conducted in the USA actually and one found that almost 20% of children were not born to the husband, partner or dude who thought he was the father. In reality i'm sure that stat. is much lower, but i'd be surprised if it were below 5%.

Lolol. But I thought you weren't going to quote stats. Didn't take much persuading, did you? I'm highly sceptical of even a 5% figure. How did they collect these statistics? Get volunteers from The National Mysogyny Organisation to stand on every street corner in the land with a market survey asking random passing wenches how many of their progecy were actually spawned by their husband/partner? :roll:

 

[Lizzad]

Lolol. But I thought you weren't going to quote stats. Didn't take much persuading, did you? I'm highly sceptical of even a 5% figure. How did they collect these statistics? Get volunteers from The National Mysogyny Organisation to stand on every street corner in the land with a market survey asking random passing wenches how many of their progecy were actually spawned by their husband/partner?

I didn't feel it was necessary to quote stats at the time of posting, and it wasn't at the time.

If you want to find out more information, instead of trying to get me to spoon feed you, and answer your retarded questions, go and do some research yourself. And don't waste my time with idiotic questions. :x

 

[Humpty Dumpty]

>>> didn't feel it was necessary to quote stats at the time of posting, and it wasn't at the time.

The urge just suddenly came upon you, eh?

>>>If you want to find out more information, instead of trying to get me to spoon feed you, and answer your retarded questions, go and do some research yourself. And don't waste my time with idiotic questions.

No need. The question was purely rhetorical, I assure you. I don't believe your more 'conservative' figure of 5% any more than I believe any away-with-the-fairies estimate of 20%. You feeling all right btw? You've gone a funny colour...

 

[ShedMaster]

uhh.. I don't what you are used to in your country, but here in the US that really doesn't happen very often. Its not hard to tell if you inherit certain characteristics from your father, and if you can't figure out who your mother is, then... god help us all.

The studies i read were all conducted in the USA actually and one found that almost 20% of children were not born to the husband, partner or dude who thought he was the father. In reality i'm sure that stat. is much lower, but i'd be surprised if it were below 5%. :moon:

I would bet 95% of these people who didn't know their real father live in the ghetto or some rural backwoods in georgia. :spell:
I assure you those numbers are inflated.

 

[12344321]

Mothers side:

absolutely no hairloss at all. Everyone=full heads of hair til death



Fathers side:

Great grandfather (grandma side) full head of hair til death at 97
Great grandfather (grandpa side) full head of hair til 60's at death
grandmas 8 brothers= no hairloss whatsoever
grandpa= died at 63 with just a small thin spot at crown
uncle = full head of hair even today
dad= started thinning at 18, almost completey bald now at 57, but been slow


now u have my brother and i. I seem to be following my dad exactly. My brother at his rate will be bald by 23.

Whatever baldness gene is in my fathers family line started up recently and evolved fast.

 

[Redbone]

Studies show that balding men have an IQ 20% greater than the average full haired male.

 

[Stingray]

Studies show that my penis is f*****g huge!

 

[Diddy]

Studies show that my penis is f*****g huge!

Ahh sting sorry man, don't know how to break this too you...
but Bruce just posted a double blind study which shows this is false....sorry bud. :wink:

 

[Redbone]

Stingray put that centimeter ruler away....