The explanation is that the genetic reason for Pattern Baldness
is linked to your mother's X-Chromosome. Everyone get one-half of
their genetic make-up from their mother and their father. The final
chromosome pair of the 23 pairs is the sex determining set. While
males are XY and females are XX the determination of an individuals
sex is made by the father. It is the father who gives either the X
chromosome, which matches with the woman’s X resulting in XX and a
female child or the Y chromosome which joins with the woman’s X
resulting in an XY match and a male child. It is the X chromosome
or female sex chromosome that contains the gene for Male Pattern
Baldness.
Since men have only one X chromosome, the gene for baldness is a
single expression gene that shows up because there is no possible
dominant gene to suppress what would normally be a recessive or
hidden characteristic. Since Male Pattern Baldness gene is only on
the X chromosome and men can only get that chromosome from their
mothers, it is simple to see how this type of baldness is passed
from mother to son.
The fact that it seems that men in families often have many
generations of bald men tend to make this explanation of hard to
believe, yet genetics explain it. Male Pattern Baldness is a
condition that as previously stated is on a gene on the X
chromosome. Since this form of baldness is recessive, it will be
hidden if only one of the dominant genes is present. Since women
have the XX chromosome pair, baldness will not occur unless both
chromosomes have the recessive gene that causes baldness
If that is the case, perhaps you do not even need to "wait to
get bald" but rather, will be bald since you're born
Hormones come into play during your puberty.the Baldness gene
makes one's hair sensitive to hormones in the body...it will be a
while (past puberty ect) before u start losing yr hair since
baldness is an autoimmune response which basically means the your
immune system starts rejecting the hair cells and yr hair falls out
because hormones ( DHT, testesterone and estrogen) clog up the hair
cells. Now this does not happen overnight, in fact your hair is
always been clogged up by homones since puberty started, It hangs
on till the body gives up the fight and your autoimmune response
takes over by rejecting the hair. Now when this happens is called
the triggering of baldness. So in the first place if u want to
avoid baldness your hair should be genetically resistant to
hormones in your body. And this depends on your family's genetic
history.
