The inheritance of height in humans is a simple subject for study in schools, which allows the effects of polygenic and environmental factors to be seen, and simultaneously allows a number of other biological truths to be appreciateddoi:10.1080/00219266.1987.9654888Reiss...
primarily determined by genetics. However, it does not depend solely on the parents' height. It's inherited in a way so that children may be taller or shorter than their parents since height inheritance is polygenic – the answer to how tall your child will be is scattered among many genes...
This type of variation is typically influenced by multiple genes (polygenic inheritance) and environmental factors. Height in humans is a prime example of continuous variation, as it can range from very short to very tall without distinct categories. 3. Exclusion of Somatogenic Variation: - Somato...
Height is an easily assessed trait in humans, with a narrow-sense heritability estimated to be 80% (refs 1, 2, 3, 4). Abnormal stature is one of the most common phenotypic features of Mendelian conditions, as catalogued in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) (Supplementary Table...
the proportion of total variation explained by genetic variation; in this seminal paper presenting the statistical prin- ciples of quantitative genetics, he demonstrated that continuous characters are caused by a combination of many genetic loci with small effects (polygenic inheritance), replacing the ...