The Future of Knowing your Height before Adulthood

There was a study done on height variations at Erasmus University Medical Center (Rotterdam, Netherlands). Professors Manfred Kayser and Stenvert Drop led and collaborated the study. A rather large sample size of seven hundred seventy-seven extremely tall cases and nine thousand of normal height as the control. It also included 180 DNA variants from the previous study which implicated normal height, and the new results were compared to the old study.

The results of this study were compiled through DNA-based prediction. This DNA-based prediction helps in accuracy of results. It had been used for eye color, hair color, and age before, and now for the height. However, the results are still quite lower than what it should have been. With some more improvement I believe, it could only be useful in several areas. Medical usage is one, specifically looking at endocrinology, and crime scene investigations are a few that can be named.