We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

Adult human height is one of the classical complex human traits1. We searched for sequence variants that affect height by scanning the genomes of 25,174 Icelanders, 2,876 Dutch, 1,770 European ...

Human height is a highly heritable, polygenic trait 1,2. The contribution of common DNA sequence variation to inter-individual differences in adult height has been systematically evaluated through ...

You'd think it would be a simple matter of looking at a few genes from Mom and Dad. But scientists say they've already found more than 700 variants that affect height and are still counting.

Results The comparison between two groups showed that athletes with greater maximum vertical counter movement jump height (group_1: 64.10±5.08 cm vs group_2: 56.41±3.88 cm; p<0.05) have different ...