1. Eleven pairs of Japanese male twins suggest the role of epigenetic differences in androgenetic alopecia
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Nagaoki Wakisaka, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Yoshio Nakamizo, Katsuyuki Takeda, Takanori Hama, Sawako Konishi, Taro Koyama, Masaya Kawakami, and Nobuo Hirayama
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Repetitive Sequences ,Dermatology ,Epigenesis, Genetic ,Young Adult ,5-alpha Reductase Inhibitors ,Asian People ,Japan ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Epigenetics ,Antihypertensive Agents ,Lipoprotein cholesterol ,Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ,business.industry ,Finasteride ,Alopecia ,Organ Size ,Twins, Monozygotic ,Heritability ,Twin study ,Endocrinology ,Receptors, Androgen ,Minoxidil ,business ,Hair - Abstract
ejd.2012.1898 Auteur(s) : Taro Koyama koyama@fml.ne.jp, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Nagaoki Wakisaka, Nobuo Hirayama, Sawako Konishi, Takanori Hama, Katsuyuki Takeda, Yoshio Nakamizo, Masaya Kawakami Future Medical Laboratory, 14 F, 1-22-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan Genetic factors play an important role in androgenetic alopecia (AGA), as Nyholt reported its heritability as 0.81 [1]. On the other hand, environmental factors, such as smoking and levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, [...]
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- 2013