Hair Loss - gene therapy questions, again (1 of 2)

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blindwilly

26.07.2012, 23:04

gene therapy questions, again (1 of 2) (Hair Loss Research & Clinical Trials)

I would like to understand more about the genetic of baldness
and what could be done. Since the matter involve basically
two questions, I split into 2 threads, so anyone can answer
freely in one or in the other.

I put it down simple:

What prevents scientists to sample a huge number of individuals,
scan their genome, put all those data inside a database, along
with phenotypes like norwood, hair characteristics, move all
this stuff inside a super computer, apply some sort of an
algorithm to compare analogies/differences and find all baldness
related genes?

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cal

26.07.2012, 23:21

@ blindwilly
gene therapy questions, again (1 of 2)

Gene therapy is a complicated & risky business that has still not be tried for a lot of life-wrecking and fatal diseases. A certain gene might happen to correlate with MPB, but it might also have a dozen other jobs that are seemingly unrelated to hair. It's unlikely that we could just find a gene(s) that predicts MPB and then shut it off. It almost surely wouldn't be that simple.

MPB is a cosmetic problem. It just doesn't rate that kind of risk taking to treat it. Maybe in the future when the science of genes is lightyears better understood, but not now. Especially not when real progress is being made towards decent restorative treatments lately.

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blindwilly

26.07.2012, 23:34

@ cal
gene therapy questions, again (1 of 2)

� Gene therapy is a complicated & risky business that has still not be tried
� for a lot of life-wrecking and fatal diseases. A certain gene might happen
� to correlate with MPB, but it might also have a dozen other jobs that are
� seemingly unrelated to hair. It's unlikely that we could just find a
� gene(s) that predicts MPB and then shut it off. It almost surely wouldn't
� be that simple.
�
� MPB is a cosmetic problem. It just doesn't rate that kind of risk taking
� to treat it. Maybe in the future when the science of genes is lightyears
� better understood, but not now. Especially not when real progress is being
� made towards decent restorative treatments lately.

In this thread I focused on the analysing problem, just to find which
genes are related to baldness. However, seems that applications of gene
therapy could be local to hair follicle, you have not to change all of
your genes in your body. Yes, I know there are security concerns,
but I don't think is the only reason.

blindwilly is located in [NA] and he is available to meet: NO

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blindwilly 26.07.2012, 23:04	gene therapy questions, again (1 of 2) (Hair Loss Research & Clinical Trials)
	I would like to understand more about the genetic of baldness and what could be done. Since the matter involve basically two questions, I split into 2 threads, so anyone can answer freely in one or in the other. I put it down simple: What prevents scientists to sample a huge number of individuals, scan their genome, put all those data inside a database, along with phenotypes like norwood, hair characteristics, move all this stuff inside a super computer, apply some sort of an algorithm to compare analogies/differences and find all baldness related genes? blindwilly is located in [NA] and he is available to meet: NO Post reply
cal 26.07.2012, 23:21 @ blindwilly	gene therapy questions, again (1 of 2)
	Gene therapy is a complicated & risky business that has still not be tried for a lot of life-wrecking and fatal diseases. A certain gene might happen to correlate with MPB, but it might also have a dozen other jobs that are seemingly unrelated to hair. It's unlikely that we could just find a gene(s) that predicts MPB and then shut it off. It almost surely wouldn't be that simple. MPB is a cosmetic problem. It just doesn't rate that kind of risk taking to treat it. Maybe in the future when the science of genes is lightyears better understood, but not now. Especially not when real progress is being made towards decent restorative treatments lately. cal is located in [NA] and he is available to meet: NO Post reply
blindwilly 26.07.2012, 23:34 @ cal	gene therapy questions, again (1 of 2)
	� Gene therapy is a complicated & risky business that has still not be tried � for a lot of life-wrecking and fatal diseases. A certain gene might happen � to correlate with MPB, but it might also have a dozen other jobs that are � seemingly unrelated to hair. It's unlikely that we could just find a � gene(s) that predicts MPB and then shut it off. It almost surely wouldn't � be that simple. � � MPB is a cosmetic problem. It just doesn't rate that kind of risk taking � to treat it. Maybe in the future when the science of genes is lightyears � better understood, but not now. Especially not when real progress is being � made towards decent restorative treatments lately. In this thread I focused on the analysing problem, just to find which genes are related to baldness. However, seems that applications of gene therapy could be local to hair follicle, you have not to change all of your genes in your body. Yes, I know there are security concerns, but I don't think is the only reason. blindwilly is located in [NA] and he is available to meet: NO Post reply