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According too my hairdresser your hair is usually inherited from your mums side of the family.

is this true?

My mom had dirty blonde hair, but I ended up with brown hair, which is on my father's side of the family. Go figure.

No, it's not.

My hair used too be dark brown like my mums but now my hair is dirty blonde like my dads

I used to be more of a dirty blonde, but then it turned into a reddish brown. My mom has red hair and my dad had dirty blonde that turned into a dark brown.

So, no. It isn't always the case.

I think hair loss is inherited through your mothers side, but the rest like color, texture, thickness, is all up to chance.

I have dark hair, as does my husband but mine is straight and thin and his is curly and thick. His is the kind of curly that people call "Jewfro" which is that kinky curly afro type hair on white people. His parents both had dark curly hair, and my dad had dark straight hair and my mother had blonde straight hair.

We have;

One kid with dark straight hair
One kid with straight blonde hair
One kid with curly dark hair
One kid with curly blonde hair.

So, there ya go. My husband started losing his hair by the time he was 30 and now that he's grown it out past his shoulders, and he's 50 this year and about half grey and half bald on top, he's got this David Crosby thing going on. His dad died with a full head of hair, but his mother had thinning hair. My mother has thinning hair, and so do I. I am actually losing hair at the hairline on each side on the top. It's like male pattern baldness. I am using Rogaine for women right now and have been for a while and it's growing back. As it is right now, I have to part it a certain way because of that.

My mom's hair is bone straight, and she had four curly haired kids. Of course, my oldest has curly hair too unlike his dad. Maybe there's some genetic dominance involved, like in eye color?

I have dark and straight hair like my mother's (with some gray now), and her father and brothers are all bald (and started losing hair at 19 or so). My father is also bald, but his father had a full head of hair till he passed away at age 96 a few weeks ago. My mother also has thinning hair now though, in her 50's.

All my kids got their dads' hair, blond and straight from the ex and dark brown and straight from the current .

If you pull 3 different hairs from my head, they are likely to be one each of fine blonde, medium red, and coarse dark.

I have a co-worker whose daughters run the gamut from dark brown to light brown to redhead to blonde.

I have greenish hazelish eyes that sometimes look light brown and my husband has dark brown eyes. My oldest son has light blue eyes, my oldest daughter has green eyes, and my younger son and daughter have dark brown eyes. I have light skin that tans dark and fast and my husband has olive skin that tans the same way. My oldest son has very light skin that burns and rarely tans, my oldest daughter has very light skin that does tan but also burns easily, and my two younger ones have olive skin that turn brown really quickly.

I'm tall and my husband is tall. My dad was tall as was his dad and his mother is short and mine is about average height. Both our boys are tall (6-3 and 6-5) and both our girls are short (5-4 and 5-5) but the 5-5 one is only 16 years old.

So, that's how the heredity stacked up here. We are both the parents of all four kids.

My grandbaby (oldest son's baby) looks exactly like my oldest daughter did at that age and has her exact coloring too.

I heared the hair comes from the mothers side. I.E hairless.

I never heard that hair color was coded on the X chromosome.

Thats the only way it could be sex-linked in inheritence that I know of.

If you get one X, and one short Y, you're male.

If you get two long X's you're female.

Genes normally come in pairs- one from each parent.

But the mutation that causes hemophilia is on the part of the X that has no matching gene on the Y- because the Y is short and there is nothing there at the matching point to overpower the recessive hemophilia gene on the X.

Girls get two X's- so if they get one with the defective gene that cause hemophilia (which is recessive, and rare) it likely will paired with a healthy gene on the other X that will override it. And she will be healthy and hemophilia free.

But if a boy gets the bad gene on the X- his other chromosome is why- so he just has empty space where the partner gene should be. So he gets nothing to over ride the bad gene, and does get hemophilia.

So boys get hemophilia more often-and they get it from their mother's linneage.

There are probably several genes for hair color and type.
I doubt this- but lets suppose that these genes are clustered together on some region of the long X chromosome that sticks out beyond the short Y chromosome so (like hemophilia) none of them has matching genes to contend with in males ( but would be paired with genes in women).

If that were the case then men would get their hair color from their mothers ( or thier grandmothers, great grandmothers) exclusively. But women would get their hair color from both parents' genes mixed.

But hereditary traits can also skip a generation, leaving people to wonder why kids don't look more like their parents.

Last edited by PrncssAlay on 03 May 2013, 4:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Only hair loss in men is related to mom only. Curly hair is dominant over strait hair. Basic color also has dominance, but can also be influenced by environment. Both parents can contribute to hair color.