Friday, August 17, 2012

if you're a guy, which member of your family should you look at to tell if you are going to go bald? why? use a punnett square. b is bald and B isn't

Male pattern baldness  has been studied and is not
completely understood, however, it is thought to be a sex-linked disorder. Since females
have two X chromosomes and males have one, a son who is XY would inherit the X from his
mother and the Y from his father. The mother passes one of her two X chromosomes to her
son. If the X she passes down came from the maternal grandfather and had linked to it a
gene for baldness,  it was thought that the son would become bald as an adult. If there
is a variant gene for the androgen receptor on the X chromosome, there is a likelihood
of male pattern baldness occurring in the male, since males only inherit one X
chromosome. However, there is an additional gene on chromosome 20 involved in baldness.
Even though in the past, one would look to the mother's father to see if he were bald or
not, both parents genetics have an effect on the son.

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