If A Mother Has Male-pattern Baldness, Will Her Daughter As Well?

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It doesn’t necessarily follow, but there is a greater likelihood.
One indication of whether a female has had early foetal exposure to high levels of testosterone is that her ring fingers are longer than her index fingers (the opposite of the normal female pattern). If this is the case, she’d likely to have been sensitised to respond to later exposure to testosterone, so that he scalp is more likely to suffer from male pattern baldness (i.e. receding from temples and crown). She’s also more likely to be capable of growing a moustache and possibly a beard.
This is much more common than is generally recognised.
The link isn’t as simple as most people imagine — it’s more a question of high-testosterone mothers tending to produce a higher-than-average proportion of high-testosterone children. High testotsterone mothers tend to produce a greater proportion of boys than girls, but when they do produce girls, a significant proportion of the girls tend to be more masculinised than average (taller than average, stronger muscles, smaller breasts, hairier than average, lower voices, male-pattern balding etc.).
There’s plenty of material under the subject “digit ratio”, but do remember that we’re talking here about tendencies, not certainties. There are also plenty of mothers with male-pattern-baldness who have daughters who show no signs whatsoever of male-pattern baldness or any other sign of masculinisation.

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Post Title: If A Mother Has Male-pattern Baldness, Will Her Daughter As Well?
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Posted: 19th August 2009
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