Important new hair-loss gene discovered
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 05:49
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at Bonn and Duesseldorf Universities have discovered an important hair-loss gene. During their study, the researchers investigated over 500,000 positions in the human genome, and found a gene variant which occurs clearly more frequently in bald men than in control persons. The results are to be published in the November issue of the journal Nature Genetics...
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