More Hair Loss Genetic Research
Written by Richard Simmons | Thursday, 13 August 2009 | There is 1 comment
the Sox21 gene was definitely linked to some hair loss problems 
It’s all in the genes! New research coming from Japan has positively identified a particular gene which is responsible for cyclical hair loss in lab mice and which could also be linked to genetic baldness patterns in men and women.
The researchers showed that the mice who were specifically bred to lack a gene called the Sox21 gene started to lose their hair very early on in their lives. By the time they were 20 to 25 days old these particular mice had lost all of their body hair, however a few days later their hair started to reappear again followed by new hair loss. The scientists said that the cyclical nature of their hair loss continued throughout their lives.
Professor Yumiko Saga from the Division of Mammalian Development at the National Institute of Genetics based in Mishima said that the Sox21 gene was definitely linked to some hair loss problems that humans experienced and that more research in this area needed to be done.
At Ukmedix News we like to keep up to date on any research done in the field of hair loss and we have seen that projects in different parts the world are being funded specifically in the area of genetics.
The largest hair loss problem is male pattern baldness which is experienced by as many as 50 percent of men and any research which came across a way of reversing this genetic condition would be worth millions if not billions of pounds.
It is likely that in the next decade the hair loss drug Propecia will become the second most effective treatment for male pattern baldness but until then it retains its number one spot as being the treatment most likely to stop its onset.
The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
