A landmark review in Nature Reviews Genetics dissects the rare and common genetic variants that shape human height. The paper ...

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Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

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it would take several more decades for the full subtleties of the interaction between autism and the human genome to become apparent. Between any two individuals, the amount of genetic variation ...

How Height Has Changed Over Time Men, and humans in general ... an underlying health condition affecting your growth. This genetic situation is called familial short stature.