caa a22 4500 445861770 CHVBK 20180317145445.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00439-011-0969-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00439-011-0969-x Lettre Guillaume Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Bélanger Street, H1T 1C8, Montreal, QC, Canada aut Recent progress in the study of the genetics of height [Elektronische Daten] [Guillaume Lettre] Adult height is a classic polygenic trait of high narrow-sense heritability (h 2=0.8). In the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, variation in adult height was used as a model to set the foundation of the fields of statistics and quantitative genetics. More recently, with our increasing knowledge concerning the extent of genetic variation in the human genome, human geneticists have used genome-wide association studies to identify hundreds of loci robustly associated with adult height, providing new insights into human growth and development, and into the architecture of complex human traits. In this review, I highlight the progress made in the last 2years in understanding how genetic variation controls height variation in humans, including non-Caucasian populations and children. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Human Genetics Springer-Verlag 129/5(2011-05-01), 465-472 0340-6717 129:5<465 2011 129 439 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-011-0969-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-011-0969-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lettre Guillaume Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Bélanger Street, H1T 1C8, Montreal, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Genetics Springer-Verlag 129/5(2011-05-01), 465-472 0340-6717 129:5<465 2011 129 439 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer