Final answer:
Whether your children will inherit baldness due to mutated genes depends on if the mutation is germline or somatic, and on the complex patterns of genetic inheritance, including dominance, penetrance, and expressivity.
Step-by-step explanation:
Your children inheriting baldness due to the mutated genes causing your condition depends on the nature of the mutation and its mode of inheritance. Hair loss can be influenced by many genes and can also be affected by environmental factors.
Germline mutations, which are passed from parents to offspring, can result in genetic disorders if they occur in genes that are critical for normal growth and development. However, not all mutations that cause a phenotype, such as baldness, are necessarily inherited. Some mutations can be somatic, which means they occur in the body's cells after birth and are not passed on to children. In the case of baldness, if the mutation is in the somatic cells of the hair follicles and not in the germline cells (sperm or egg), your children would not inherit the baldness.
Furthermore, even hereditary forms of baldness do not guarantee that a child will be bald. Genetic inheritance is complex, and even dominant traits, like some forms of baldness, might not be expressed in every generation due to incomplete penetrance or variable expressivity. In addition, if the trait is recessive, a child would need two copies of the mutated gene (one from each parent) to exhibit the trait.