Article: GENETIC CLUES TO MALE BALDNESS FOUND

Meghna Menon

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Toronto, Oct. 16 -- (IANS) Researchers have found two DNA variants in Caucasian men that could be linked to higher risk of male pattern baldness. Male pattern baldness is the most common form of baldness which leads to loss of hair in a well-defined pattern, beginning with the temples and resulting in a distinctive M-shaped hairline.But the new findings may lead to an early prediction about hair loss and a future treatment to check male pattern baldness which affects one in three males over the age of 45.As part of their research, medical scientists from McGill University in Montreal, GlaxoSmithKline ...

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