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Predicting human height by Victorian and genomic methods.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Aug 2009
Aulchenko Yurii S, Struchalin Maksim V, Belonogova Nadezhda M, Axenovich Tatiana I, Weedon Michael N, Hofman Albert, Uitterlinden Andre G, Kayser Manfred, Oostra Ben A, van Duijn Cornelia M, Janssens A Cecile J W, Borodin Pavel M
Abstract excerpt
In the Victorian era, Sir Francis Galton showed that 'when dealing with the transmission of stature from parents to children, the average height of the two parents, ... is all we need care to know about them' (1886). One hundred and twenty-two years after Galton's work was published, 54 loci showing strong statistical evidence for association to human height were described, providing us with potential genomic...
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