Posts Tagged ‘Person’
As A Long Haired Person, Why Do I Have So Many Short Hairs Where My Hair Parts And Towards The Hairline?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Very worried… my bangs are disappearing because of this. Am I brushing too hard or is this just male pattern baldness kicking in? I’m a 20 year old male.
How Does A Gene No Longer Become Silenced When A Person Ages?
Monday, August 31st, 2009You are a graduate student and discover a new gene within the human genome, and you have decided to call it BALDY. You characterize BALDY within the human population and discover that it is associated with male-pattern baldness. You map the BALDY gene to the genome and discover that it is within 50kb of the telomere of Chromosome 18q. Postulate a mechanism for BALDY expression changing with age.
