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

<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 nucl...

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Main Authors: Danny Zeevi, Adi Ben Yehuda, Dafna Nathan, David Zangen, Leonid Kruglyak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-07-01
Series:Children
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/11/8/916