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Family Histories

M. A. SMITH, DM, MRCP; R. S. WELLS, MB, MRCP, MRCPEd

Arch Dermatol. 1964;89(1):95-98.

Abstract
The family histories of scalp hair growth of 56 women with male-type alopecia have been compared with those of women with alopecia areata and with normal controls. Of the first-degree relatives of the propositi with male-type alopecia who were more than 30 years old, 54% of the males and 23% of the females also had this trait, compared with figures of 20.5% and 7% among the relatives of the alopecia areata propositi, and slightly lower figures still among the relatives of the normal controls.

Author Affiliations
LONDON, ENGLAND

From the Departments of Dermatology, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, S.E.1, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire.

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