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[|The Tall And The Short Of It] Apr. 7, 2008 This article is about how some scientists have found that there are tall genes. There actually dozens of different gene ways to be taller. This provides scientists with a fascinating insight into how the body grows and develops normally and may shed light on diseases such as osteoarthritis and cancer. 90 per cent of normal variation in human height is due to genetic factors rather than diet. Last year, Dr Tim Frayling from the Peninsula Medical School, and Professor Mark McCarthy from the University of Oxford identified the first common gene variant to affect height, but it was only about 0.5cm. But still more than half of the genes we know nothing about so there could be more. There may be hundreds of genes to do with height which could all do different things. Some of this study helped cancer research, and cell division. This could affect people, because then everyone could be the height they wanted to be.

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