The genetics of hair loss

While hair loss and thinning hair are often a worry for men, it’s often their mothers who are blamed for their condition. But is there any truth behind the old myth that the genetic traits for baldness and thinning hair are passed down from mother to child? Not necessarily. When a child is born, he or she has a set of genes from both parents—those that determine eye color, hair color and other traits. The dominant gene will most often than not come through, but this depends on factors of farther down your family tree as well. (more...)