Human height is a highly heritable trait, and GWAS have identified 12,111 common variants, primarily in European-ancestry populations, that explain ~50% of heritability.

Scientists discover genes that determine height. Sept. 29, 2010 — -- Being short certainly kills your chances for a basketball or modeling career, but social research suggests that shorter ...

Human height is primarily determined by genetics, influenced by factors such as parental height and ethnic background. Growth plates, located at the ends of long bones, are responsible for ...

But what factors influence human height and by how much remains an open question. Genetics is no doubt involved, though it doesn’t seem to account for all patterns.

The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but this change has not occurred equally among men and women. Men got taller, heavier faster ...

In mammals, only 3% of the genome consists of coding genes which, when transcribed into proteins, ensure the biological functions of the organism and the in-utero development of future individuals.