Is Height Genetic?

I’m tall. Here’s why!
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I’m tall. Most of the people in my family are tall. Does that mean my son will be tall? Turns out the inheritance of height is a lot more complicated than we thought. Scientists know that nature (genes) and nurture (environment) both play a role, but after more than a century of questions, we’re only just now starting to get some answers

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Fryar, C.D. et al. (2016). Anthropometric reference data for
children and adults: United States, 2011–2014. National Center for Health
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NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. (2016). A century of trends in adult human height. eLife
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Visscher, P.M. et al. (2007). Genome partitioning of genetic variation for height from 11,214 sibling pairs. American Journal of Human Genetics 81:1104–10.

Zimmer, C. (2018). She has her mother’s laugh: The powers, perversions, and potential of heredity. New York: Dutton. http://bit.ly/2xi5H0M

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