What causes female pattern baldness?

What causes female pattern baldness?

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Female pattern baldness is a sensitivity to the male hormone or the androgens within the females body. It is hereditary. It sometimes, not too often, affects women in their 20s and 30s, but more commonly affects women after menopause.