Hello, I’m Kim Jin-Oh, the director of NHI(New Hair Institute) Can women also experience genetic hair loss? If I get a hair loss test, would I be able to know if it’s genetic or not? This was the question. Women can also suffer from genetic hair loss. Women with natural thin hair, Most of these people are caused by genetic hair loss. Female hair loss can also be genetic.

Although the correlation is not as clear or definite as men, you often see mothers or aunts who have sparse crown areas. Male hair loss causes the hairline to be pushed back and the crown area to be thin, but female hair loss looks a little different. A typical pattern on female genetic hair loss is when hair looks thin while maintaining the hairline.

When I ask female patients, there are quite a few people who have hair loss in their family. Mostly their mother and grandmother,and so on. Even in the case where the fathers have hair loss, they may also genetically experience hair loss but just in a different pattern mostly having thin hair while still maintaining the hairline. In conclusion, women can also suffer from genetic hair loss.

If I have a hair loss test, would I be able to know if it’s genetic or not? In fact, we can’t judge whether it is genetic or not by a blood test or biopsy. There’s no clear gene or anything like that yet. So although it is quite impossible to tell whether or not the hair loss is genetic, I do give my insights on the possibility of it being genetic based on the hair loss pattern, or family history.

Whether the probability of it being genetic is high or low, I’ll tell you based on the symptoms. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments. I’ll answer it myself. If you have any questions with attaching long contents or photos, please leave them in our Naver cafe, which is linked to the ‘See more’ section below.

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