[Flipside]

Genetics certainly speeds things up, I knew I was going to have a receeding hairline because my Dad is more or less totally bald, and my mothers' Dad had receeded hair, but not bald. I'm hoping I take after him. But external influences can also effect matters sometimes. High levels of stress can lead to baldness, but even then it usually leads to premature baldness, which suggests a tendency towards it is needed in the first place.

[Kazan]

male pattern baldness is on the X-chromosome - males cannot inherit it from their father

[Flipside]

Yeah, I'd heard something like that before, that you get a better idea by looking at your mother's side of the family, which is good news for me.

One day I'll have to post a picture of me next to a picture of my Grandfather in his WW2 years, the similiarity is quite scary.

[Kazan]

women can suffer from PB [Pattern Baldness] as well - they just have to be homozygous for it.... any male children i have will have a 50% chance of getting PB from blair (her mother is homozygous for PB)

[BlackDove]

I always wondered what purpose these kinds of threads served. Moreover to the point, what kind of replies they should attract and recieve.

[Ford Prefect]

I always wondered what purpose everything served. Then I realized it was nothing, and I stopped caring about things that serve no purpose.