{"id":34073,"date":"2017-02-02T23:04:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/researchers-identified-83-new-dna-changes-for-human-height"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:55:02","slug":"researchers-identified-83-new-dna-changes-for-human-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/researchers-identified-83-new-dna-changes-for-human-height","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identified 83 new DNA changes for human height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-identified-83-new-dna-changes-for-human-height.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has identified 83 new DNA changes that strongly determine human height as well as also help predict a person\u2019s risk of developing certain growth disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Height is mostly determined by the information encoded in the human DNA \u2014 children from tall parents tend to be taller and those from short parents are shorter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf these 83 genetic variations, some influence adult height by more than 2 cm, which is enormous,\u201d said Guillaume Lettre, Professor at Montreal Heart Institute in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/24indianews.com\/researchers-identified-83-new-dna-changes-for-human-height\/\">http:\/\/24indianews.com\/researchers-identified-83-new-dna-cha...an-height\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has identified 83 new DNA changes that strongly determine human height as well as also help predict a person\u2019s risk of developing certain growth disorders. Height is mostly determined by the information encoded in the human DNA \u2014 children from tall parents tend to be taller and those from short [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49211,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34073\/revisions\/49211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}