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During a joint research conducted by McGill University, King s College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. the investigators identified two genetic variants in Caucasians that together are responsible for seven times the increase in the risk of male pattern baldness.

During a joint research conducted by McGill University, King’s College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. the investigators identified two genetic variants in Caucasians that together are responsible for seven times the increase in the risk of male pattern baldness.

In the last decade, studies in men and women have shown that inflammation is an important risk factor for heart disease, perhaps equal in importance to unhealthy cholesterol levels . Recent scientific discoveries indicate that some of the risk for cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks, is due to variations in the genes that we inherit.

Nicotine junkies can now be free from remorse since their cravings for nicotine are, in fact, a genetic disease.

Good news came on January 15, 2008 from HairDX, LLC. According to Business Wire, HairDX, which combines top researchers in genetic tests and high-tech hair therapies, is launching the first commercially-available test that will give male consumers a precise genetic analysis of their chances to develop androgenic alopecia - a widely spread condition of male-pattern baldness.