Existence Genetics provides genetic testing to predict and help protect against male pattern baldness. The goal of Existence’s testing for baldness is not only to determine your risk of going bald but to provide you with genetically tailored information about ways to delay losing your hair and significantly slow down hair loss if it does occur.
The Genetically Tailored Prevention section of our straightforward, non-technical report will empower you and your healthcare provider with specific information on actions you can take to delay and slow down hair loss. For example, because research has found that cardiovascular exercise protects men against hair loss, as part of our exclusive Male Pattern Baldness Prevention genetic testing panel, Existence Genetics will use our patent-pending technologies to also analyze genes involved in athletic performance. Within your genetic report you’ll receive information on the results, with clear solutions for tailoring your fitness and exercise regimen to your genes.
Therefore, your genetic report will not only contain your genetic risk of male pattern baldness and personalized information about how you can protect yourself from losing your hair, but will also include an analysis of genes that will enable you to optimize your fitness.
Old Wives’ Tale: If your mother’s father is bald, then you are likely to go bald, too.
This old wives’ tale is only partially true and not a very accurate way of assessing your risk of male pattern baldness. The gene most strongly associated with determining a man’s risk of going bald may be passed down from a man’s maternal grandfather, but there is only a 50 percent chance of this occurring. Therefore, even if a man’s maternal grandfather has this gene, there is only a 50 percent chance that he will inherit it.
In addition, the gene discussed above (known as the AR gene) is not the only one involved in a man’s risk of going bald, and the other gene Existence Genetics’ tests for may be inherited from either your mother or father.
Existence Genetics provides you and your healthcare provider with a full analysis of your risk for going bald by taking into account both of these genes, thereby providing you with the world’s most comprehensive assessment for male pattern baldness risk. You no longer have to turn to an old wives’ tale; now you can find out your risk of going bald by looking at your genes.
If you are interested in genetic testing for male pattern baldness, please email info@existencegenetics.com or ask your dermatologist, internist, or other healthcare professional to contact us. To facilitate the discussion, you can click here to print a one-page informational letter that you can send to your healthcare professional.
