New gene for hair loss identified

Researchers have discovered a gene involved in hair loss that may lead to new, non-hormonal therapies for baldness. The work, by researchers at Rockefeller, Columbia and Stanford universities, reveals that a mutation in a gene called APCDD1 inhibits a signaling pathway that was known to affect hair growth in mice but never before in humans.

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