Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100414:18:15:00
At a very young age. is that what the starting point was? >> yeah. so, our studies often start using a classic genetic approach where we find a family somewhere in the world who has a very severe and easily identifiable form of hair loss. in this case from one generation to the next. and we basically take a needle in a haystack approach. we look across all the chromosomes for a place where we see that everyone shares the same gene. then we go in, identify that gene, and find a mutation or a change in the gene that's responsible for their hair falling out. in this case, what was very interestin...