Can I Inherit Hair Texture from Mom and Balding Pattern from Dad?
First off, I would like to say thank you for this awesome site and the effort you put in to answering so many people’s questions! It really helped me.
With that said, I’m 28 and I recently noticed my hairline maturing. My father didn’t start losing hair noticeably before the age of 50, (he is norwood 3 now at the age of 63, his brother and father were the same). My question is this: since he has coarser hair texture than me (I inherited fine hair texture from my mother’s side) is it possible that if I inherit his balding pattern that it progresses faster, Since my hair is finer and requires less time to succumb to the effects of DHT? (also my grandfather on my mother’s side and her brothers were all norwood 2 since 20 years old and became 2.5 around 55)
There is no way to accurately predict your hair loss trait, as to if it comes from your mother or your father. It can be a mix of traits as well. It is a draw of the cards with regard to balding. The texture of you hair as it compares to your parents may not be related to the balding gene you inherited from your parents.
I think he is also asking is will a finer hair miniaturize to it’s death faster than a coarse hair. Good question!
I don’t think the texture of hair affects it’s resistance to DHT related hairloss but I certainly imagine it would look more dramatic with fine hair since it would cover less even at the same Norwood pattern. All sides of the family having late developing Norwood 2 level hairlines is no guarantee but that seems quite a good shot at maturing level hairline rather than a significant loss.