A California company has developed an at-home DNA test that it claims will identify a genetic variant that 95 percent of all bald men share. Those who test positive have a 60 percent chance of going bald before 40.
The test also identifies whether a man has a less-common variant that means an 85% chance of not going bald by that age.
For $149, men can swab the inside of their cheek and send off the DNA sample to the company, which sends back results three to four weeks later that give all the hairy details about what is in store for their scalp.
An associate professor of genetics and development at Columbia University who is skeptical of the test's reliability because very few genes connected to hair loss have been identified.
It's the best great new for the bald head man that science has ever provide.
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