I Didn’t Notice Many Balding Men in a City in China

I spent the last week in a really poor city in China and realized that very few people were suffering from hairloss. At first I thought – this can’t be the case, maybe I was just applying some sort of subconscious filter? Or maybe the area I was in only consisted of younger people? But after a week there, I came to the conclusion that there simply weren’t that many bald people in this city. It was very confusing, I really have no answer for this, and I don’t even know what question I’m trying to ask you…I guess if anything, have you come across something like this before?

Male pattern hair loss has a strong genetic influence, but we have never compared race by city. From the literature I have read, there is no suggestion that the people of China have less balding than Europeans. One Chinese friend of mine has hair like former US President Bill Clinton in hairline shape and location. The hair is very wavy, not straight like many Asians and he says in his home town in China, this is the way all of the people there look. I guess it is possible to find a population of people with isolated gene pools, especially in geographically protected or isolate areas where inherently the population does not carry a specific gene for baldness. Someone should study it.