Reaching new heights: insights into the genetics of human stature.

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Human height is a highly heritable, classic polygenic trait. Until recently, there had been limited success in identifying the specific genetic variants that explain normal variation of human height. The advent of large-scale genome-wide association studies, however, has led to dramatic progress. In the past 18 months, the first robust common variant associations were identified and there are now 44 loci known to...

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• Body Height
• Disease
• Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
• Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
• Genome-Wide Association Study