Both me and my brother inherited our father’s balding pattern so I don’t believe that you can get it from your mom’s family

Your family experience is just that, your family experience; however this has been well studied that inheritance is approximately 50/50 from the mothers and fathers side. This has been studied across a large population to determine this. It actually may favor the female side of the family by a little less than 1%. The is the story that I tell:

‘A bald man who sees his son balding, lectures his wife about the poor genes that she gave him and blames her for her son’s balding’. This is a male chauvinistic view of some men in some cultures