In this article, 180 DNA variants that were implicated in normal height variation was tested with extremely tall subjects and normal height control subjects. When doing so, it was found that 90% of the variants had some effect on height in tall people and of this percentage, 40 % was significant. Long story short, they are using this DNA-based prediction technique in forensic molecular biology to estimate the height of a person based on these variants. If they are successful, they hope to apply this testing to possibly find perpetrators who do not have DNA profiles in authoritative systems.
What do y'all think about this? Will it work?!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131120103613.htm
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