Can’t find an earlier thread about this Cecil column: Is male pattern baldness inherited? Who’s to blame? - The Straight Dope
Any good research since 2005 about MPB and genetics?
A lot of hairdressers take it as fact that you get your hair from the opposite sex parent. But in fact, it seems pretty random, what children get from each parent. What I found interesting in the column was that castrated males don’t go bald, putting the blame on sex hormones.
As the daughter and niece of two bald women I found that interesting. Note: they weren’t completely bald, but they were very, very thin on top, and wore wigs. These two bald women had other siblings, male and female, who had plenty of hair even into old age. So whatever was in their chromosomes, it didn’t get passed down evenly. And whatever it was seems to have missed all my cousins entirely not that they weren’t nervous. (I wasn’t worried because I am adopted.)
Worried you’ll inherit Elendil’s hair?
From Hair to Heir, perhaps? Racken bracken…
Is there another kind of male baldness? "Non-pattern," perhaps? Always wondered this, otherwise if there is just one kind, adding said adjective seems a bit redundant.There are many types of hair loss. The American Hair Loss Institute has a description of them here. Pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia) causes hair loss on the top and front of the head but rarely on the sides or back, and is the most common type. There is also telogen effluvium which causes a diffuse thinning of the hair over the whole head, anagen effluvium which has similar symptoms but with faster onset (often caused by toxins like cancer chemotherapy), alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes circular patches of baldness, scarring alopecia of which there are many forms, and congenital hyptrichosis of which there are again several forms, all of which affect the patient from birth.
Male pattern baldness and female pattern baldness also tend to express differently from each other - male pattern sweeps back from the front, and tends to go full-on deforestation, whereas female pattern baldness will usually just thin out the hair, and spread from the part.
Further in the American Hair Loss Institute web pages is the Norwood Scale, for a more graphical reference.
my maternal grandfather and uncle were both balding. My dad is balding but neither his father nor his surviving brothers are. I’m not either (though I think it’s receded a tiny bit,) on the other hand like my mother I don’t have a lick of graying yet.
You know what going to happen now, right?
Seems like a thing 23andme should be interested in tackling … And yes, they have:
Baldness genes are carried on the X chromosome, but should more accurately be called baldness susceptibility genes. They require testosterone to fully express.
Therefore, you get them from your mother, but there’s more to it.
A woman with one copy does not have enough testosterone to go bald, as well as having a good copy in some cells. (Cells deactivate one X - long explanation involving calico cats) Her hair may be thin but not badly.
A woman with two copies will express the gene enough to be noticeable, to a degree modulated by her testosterone level
A man only gets one X and usually has enough testosterone to let the gene express fully; he goes bald. 
You make that sound like a BAD thing. 
Do you have a cite for this? As you see in my post above at least 63 genes correlated with baldness have been identified, only a few of them on the x-chromosome. That doesn’t say anything about how strongly each of them are correlated of course, but a lot of “knowledge” about inheritance is decades old hypotheses based on limited empirical evidence, so I’m curious about the strength of the science backing your assertion.
My father and his eldest brother looked very much alike, including baldness which was much more pronounced in Dad (already with a heavy widow’s peak in his mid-teens) than in uncle JM. Their two brothers never went bald; neither did their parents (Grandma’s hair was just amazing, I was and am officially envious of that mane).
Princes William and Harry ought’a have the same X chromosome unless something really strange happened. Completely different hair. Different color, texture - and Harry could make Will a loan.
Rarely does something depend on a single gene, but even when it does, expression can be completely different due to environmental factors. Not everybody who’s got the baldness gene goes bald, same as not everybody who’s got a given cancer-related gene develops that cancer. It’s a probabilities game.
This is the kind of thinking that keeps me coming back to the Dope.
Sometimes when hair keeps growing you just have to hew it.
Something really strange like their mother having two different X-chromosomes and Harry getting the one from grandma while William got the one from William? 
Not that I’m saying genetics isn’t complicated, but here you appear to argue for that by simplifying beyond what’s real.
True, I’d go get coffee but by now it wouldn’t have an effect.
“William got the one from grandpa”! Dangnabbit!