Developmental programming of growth: genetic variant in GH2 gene encoding placental growth hormone contributes to adult height determination.

Although in the replication samples (UFA, Bashkortostan: n = 655 men, n = 299 women; CADCZ, Czech: n = 518 men, n = 353 women; Table 1 ) the association testing did not reach statistical significance, five of the six analyzed groups under the additive model and all groups under the recessive model showed consistent trend (positive beta) of association with height ( Table 3 ).

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