Accurate Prediction of Children's Target Height from Their Mid-Parental Height

• Glavni autori: Danny Zeevi (Autor), Adi Ben Yehuda (Autor), Dafna Nathan (Autor), David Zangen (Autor), Leonid Kruglyak (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: MDPI AG, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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<b>Background:</b> For the past 50 years, standard guidelines have recommended the use of sex-adjusted mid-parental height to predict a child's final height. Here, we studied the accuracy of this procedure. <b>Methods:</b> We used height data in a cohort of 23 very large...