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Ah, yes, baldness:
every young man’s worst nightmare. The thought of taking
a shower one day and seeing strand after strand of your beautiful
hair being washed down the drain is enough to make most people
lock themselves in the bathroom and never come out.
Maybe you've heard
that baldness comes from your mother’s side? Well, the
fact is, nobody really knows if that’s true or not (sounds
to me like a theory made up by bitter bald men with overbearing
mothers). Scientists still don’t know the gene that
causes predisposition to early baldness. If the genes that
predispose to baldness were known, scientists might be able
to create therapies based on the information given by the
altered genes, and presto! A so-called bald “cure”!
But in the meantime, there’s always baseball caps. Lots
and lots of baseball caps. Baseball caps everywhere you look…
Wow. Guess this
bald thing is pretty common, judging by all the baseball caps…!
But all joking
aside, you shouldn’t worry too much about it. Remember:
bald is beautiful too!
Wanna learn more
about predictive genetic testing?
Check out this article on predictive
testing, and this activity about
choices in testing.
To learn more about
inheriting things from mom read the article on X Linked Inheritance.
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