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Can
children develop pattern baldness prepuberty ?
Yes on very rare occasions. There is an condition called Infantile
geroderma (Variot and Cailleau's syndrome) where children age very
rapidly. The skin of these children goes through all the stages
of life from birth to old age in a very short space of time. Their
skin becomes wrinkled and loose and boys develop a distinctive male
pattern alopecia while girls have a more diffuse pattern alopecia.
There are other genetic syndromes that can be associated with early
onset androgenetic alopecia including trisomy 21 (Down's sndrome),
Marie Unna hypotrichosis, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
There are more significant symptoms other than baldness for individuals
with infantile geroderma, Marie-Unna hypotrichosis, or trisomy
21 including
dwarfism
and mental retardation.
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