Arm Span and Its Relation to Height in a 2- to 17-Year-Old Reference Population and Heterozygous Carriers of ACAN Variants

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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: In the clinical assessment of a short or tall child, estimating body disproportion is useful to assess the likelihood of a primary growth disorder, e.g., skeletal dysplasia. Our objectives were (1) to use data from the Maastricht study on healthy children (2-17 years) to calculate relative arm span (AS) for height (H) to serve as age references for clinical purposes; (2) to assess its age...

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