Prediction of male basketball players' adult stature from the age of 13 years using chronological age and maturity

Pineau, Jean-Claude

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“…In a National Research Agency program, we developed new growth curves of stature using age and maturation from a longitudinal data. In this study, we observed that the mean age of peak height velocity is 12.9 years for advanced puberty, 13.9 years for standard puberty and 14.8 years for delayed puberty (3).…”

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Age Estimation of Teenage Boys During Puberty

Pineau¹

2020

Am J Forensic Med Pathol

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Background: Age estimation of a minor whose identity is unknown must be accurate enough to respond to judicial requests. The main objective of this study is to accurately determine a teenager's age from simple and reproducible criteria. Samples and methods: The first reference sample consists of 1720 measurements collected from 170 teenagers aged 11 to 16, over a period of five years. A second validation sample of 735 teenage boys aged 11 to 16 made it possible to verify the relevance of our estimates. The degree of maturation was determined using 4 pubertal stages: the stage below the age of puberty; the pre-pubescent stage; the para-pubescent stage and the pubescent stage. For each pubertal stage an optimization of the values of the age was carried out in order to reduce the differences between the estimated and the actual age at the different age groups. Results: The mean differences between estimated age and actual age from this values was-0.06 ± 0.91 years for the reference group and-0.49 ± 0.73 years for validation group. Conclusions: Our method of age estimation is simpler and accurate. It could be used routinely in a forensic frame to respond to judicial requests.

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Age Estimation of Teenage Boys During Puberty

Pineau¹

2020

Am J Forensic Med Pathol

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“…In 95% of cases, the prediction is in the range of ± 5.4 cm at 13 years and ± 4.6 cm at 14 years. Our previous reference study 20 showed that associating biological maturation with chronological age makes it possible to differentiate three groups of individuals according to pubertal stages: early, standard and late puberty. These three distinct maturation groups were used to model new mean growth kinetics curves, all three of which converge to 177 cm in males and 165 cm in females, suggesting that the final average stature reached does not depend on the different stages of puberty 31 .…”

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“…In a previous study 20 , we modelled growth curves based on age and biological maturation in a so-called standard (Caucasian) population, from longitudinal data on stature, chronological age, age of peak of growth and secondary pubertal stages (SI, Tables S1 – S5 ). Three mean height growth curves were proposed for each sex based on late, standard or early puberty.…”

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The same growth pattern from puberty suggests that modern human diversity results from changes during pre-pubertal development

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Rozzi

2021

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Patterns of human growth established for one population have rarely been tested in other populations. In a previous study, three growth curves from puberty were modelled for each sex in a longitudinal study of a Caucasian population based on stature, age at peak of growth and biological maturation. Each curve represents the canalisation of growth associated with the type of puberty. The high precision (± 3 cm) of individual adult stature predictions shows that growth kinetics are already set up at puberty and are canalised depending on biological maturity. Our aim is to assess whether this model can be extrapolated to other populations to test whether growth canalisation is a population-dependent phenomenon or if the model reflects a canalisation pattern specific to our species. The modelled curves predicted adult stature with the same high degree of precision in basketball players and the Baka pygmies. Therefore, (1) the relationship between growth kinetics and age at maturity is similar in all populations and (2) growth according to pubertal stages follows the same canalisation patterns in the populations despite the wide differences in their average adult statures. It suggests that morphological diversity in modern humans results from processes taking place in early development.

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Prediction of male basketball players' adult stature from the age of 13 years using chronological age and maturity

Abstract: Prediction of male basketball players' adult stature from the age of 13 years using chronological age and maturity.

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Age Estimation of Teenage Boys During Puberty

Age Estimation of Teenage Boys During Puberty

The same growth pattern from puberty suggests that modern human diversity results from changes during pre-pubertal development

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