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Author Interview Dr. Brockschmidt: New Candidate Gene for Male-Pattern Baldness

Author Interview: Dr. Felix Brockschmidt Susceptibility variants on chromosome 7p21.1 suggest HDAC9 as a new candidate gene for male-pattern baldness. Dr. rer. nat. Felix Brockschmidt Institute of Human Genetics Department of Genomics Life & Brain Center University of Bonn Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25 D-53105 Bonn Germany What are the main findings of the study? Our study reports [...]

Male pattern balding may be due to stem cell inactivation

Public release date: 4-Jan-2011 PHILADELPHIA – Given the amount of angst over male pattern balding, surprisingly little is known about its cause at the cellular level. In a new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team led by George Cotsarelis, MD, chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania [...]