Have you ever seen someone with more 'natural' gray scalp hair than in his or her bio-dad's natural hair? (dye, head)

[goodheathen]

Pure curiosity. I've never seen it, never heard of it, and think it might be almost a biological impossibility. (Also, I think if it were the daughter, she'd hide it.)

I think a beard hair version is possible, but so what?

[Mikala43]

I'm pretty sure I have more gray than my Dad did at a similar age. On the flip side, DH has less gray hair then his Dad. At 56 he has little gray hair. It's obnoxious.

Things like baldness are passed down from both sides of the family, so I would imagine genetically it is a crapshoot.

[texan2yankee]

my dad had about 50% white hair from his 50s until he died in his 80s. He never was totally white headed. my mother had totally white hair in her 40s but kept her hair dyed until 78. I had 95% white hair in my 40s according to my colorist.

[goodheathen]

No, not at the same stage in life. At the same time (for example, son 37 and father 62).

[king john IV]

nope.
never seen.
well, maybe i was not
paying attention.

[springfieldva]

My hair would have been white by the time I was 55 if I had not chosen to dye it my natural shade of brunette.

My dad's hair didn't have much, if any, gray at that age.

[saibot]

Oh yeah. My husband's father had thick hair with hardly any gray when he died at 74.

My husband is 55 and has slightly thinning hair with lots of gray.

[pathrunner]

I'm told that my paternal grandmother started going grey in her 20's. My paternal grandfather died at age 75 with a full head of black hair.

I started going grey in my late 30's but only with a "skunk streak". Started going full grey in my early 50's. My mother went grey in her 50's as well.

[Bette]

He passed away at 73 but had dark hair.

My mother claimed it was because he used Dove soap to wash it; never used shampoo.

Thank God baldness does not run in my family.

My mother, though, went full on white in her mid 30's. We do not remember her as dark hair, however she was still having children until her 40's. (We have pictures of her with dark hair and she was pretty).

My brother was 10 and she was walking him into school. He told her that night "Mom, please don't walk me in anymore; all the kids think you are my grandma!" My mother told me of that comment years after and how that hurt her. Years after that, my brother apologized to her. I think it always bothered him that he even said it. (She was such a good mom!).

They had 4 children. No one have inherited the white hair gene - at least, not in the 40's, 50's.

[melaniej65]

My paternal relatives all went white early (my sister & I started going white in our teens), but my mom is still naturally brunette and she will be 80 next month.