Important New Hair-loss Gene Discovered

At least one person in your family must be bald right? It could be your grand-father, your father, or even you! Male Pattern Baldness comes from genetics, yet we want to know where it all came from and how to keep your hair from losing. It could hit a person at any age possibly. for example. my brother is 27 and his hair line is already receiding. But the real complication goes out that no one in our family is bald (immediate family). Researchers have been trying to find ways of removing that and other methods of hair loss. In 2005, these scientists had already characterized the first hair-loss gene inherited through the maternal line, which explained why hair-loss in men often reflects that of their maternal grandfathers. This newly discovered gene, on the other hand, may now account for the similarity in cranial hair growth between father and son.

The researchers had concentrated their attention on the genomes of just under 300 men suffering from marked hair loss, investigating for this purpose over 500,000 variable sites in the genomes of their test subjects. Two positions frequently displayed a clear correspondence with baldness in these men – a clear indication that the genes located at those points were involved in hair-loss. "In one of these conspicuous regions lies the gene for the androgen receptor", Dr. Axel Hillmer of the Life & Brain Forschungszentrum (research centre) in Bonn states. "We had already learnt from an earlier study that this receptor was linked to hair loss. However, the other region was new to us".

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