Why are you so tall?

Complex traits such as height, in complex organisms like ourselves, are inevitably controlled by multiple genes. The concept of polygenic inheritance influences classical common human traits like adult height. It turns out the number is . . . 697 gene variants clustered in 423 individual loci. Yow!

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