The relationship between children's and parents' heights in the age-range 0 – 6 years

Gerylovová, A; Bouchalová, M

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“…This seems true for both weight and height. The magnitude of the Sui Lin mother-child height correlations seem within the range, and exhibit similar timerelated trends, as those reported for other wellnourished samples (Bayley, 1954;Garn and Rohmann, 1966;Tanner et al, 1970;Gerylovova and Bouchalova, 1974). For example, in the Fels study (United States), mother-child correlations begin a t around zero and climb to 0.29 by 2 years of age (Garn and Rohmann, 1966).…”

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The Bacon Chow study: Genetic analysis of physical growth in assessment of energy–protein malnutrition

Mueller

Pollitt

1983

American J Phys Anthropol

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Estimates of the prevalence of energy-protein malnutrition almost universally employ physical growth measurements. In this study we focus on this disease and the role of body size of relatives as mediators of responses in individuals to one type of nutrition intervention: supplementation of pregnant and lactating women. In this study, initiated by Dr. Bacon Chow and others in 1967, during gestation of a first infant a mother was untreated, while during the lactation of the first infant and the gestation and lactation of a second infant she was treated with either a calorie supplement or a placebo. Supplement-placebo group differences were sought in sibling and mother-child correlations in growth from birth to 30 months, in order to assess the role of heredity as a mediator of supplement effects.There were 108 pairs of siblings whose mothers had received a high-calorie-high-protein supplement as described above and 105 pairs of siblings whose mothers had received a placebo. Among the latter, sibling correlations for most measurements are statistically significant a t birth, and of the same magnitude seen in previous studies (-0.51, while among supplemented siblings, birth correlations are unusually low and often insignificant. The sibling correlations in Rohrer's index (wt/L3) differed the most between groups (p < 0.01). Group differences in the sibling correlation tended to disappear over the first 2.5 years of life. Correlations between mothers and their second children in subscapular skinfold tended to be higher in the supplemented than in the placebo group, birth to 30 months. In both supplement groups mother-second child correlations for body weight were higher than mother-first child correlations, suggesting the occurrence of secular changes in the environment unconnected with the treatment. The results suggest that: (1) genetic analysis of components of anthropometric variation may be a more sensitive method than the more conventional comparison of group means in detecting supplement effects; and (2) infant relative weight (Rohrer index), particularly the addition of subcutaneous fat, may be more affected by maternal supplementation than growth in weight or length alone.

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The Bacon Chow study: Genetic analysis of physical growth in assessment of energy–protein malnutrition

Mueller

Pollitt

1983

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Numerous studies (Gerylovova & Bouchalova, 1974;Himes & Roche, 1982;Palta et al, 1982;Stewart, 1982;Wich, 1983;Stewart et al, 1987;Nyström-Peck, 1994;Krzyzanowska & Umławska, 2002) have confirmed that measured and declared body heights are in close agreement (0·86%r%0·98), and thus it is entirely justified to use the questionnaire data in this study, and the values provided can be regarded as reliable. The questionnaire also included questions on social and economic status: place of residence prior to the commencement of studies in the case of students, place of residence in early childhood and for most part of life in the case of parents and grandparents, education and number of siblings in the parent and grandparent generations, and the number of above-standard property goods in students' families.…”

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Inter-Generational Educational Advancement and Body Height

Krzyzanowska

2007

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Summary. This study investigates the association between body height and inter-generational social advancement through education. Questionnaire data were collected from 2800 students (1023 men and 1777 women) from the universities of Wrocław, Poland. The questions referred to three generations: the students and their parents and grandparents. Information was collected on the age, body height and weight of the students and their parents, and on the parents' and grandparents' education. The lowest body heights were typically found for individuals from families with the lowest educational levels, whereas the greatest body heights were found for those brought up in families with a high educational status or in families who had upgraded their status. The size of the change in the educational level of parents is only associated with fathers' and female students' body height. Individuals who had advanced from a middle educational level or who came from families with this type of advancement were found to be significantly taller, on average, than those upgrading their educational level from the lowest position. The results show that, for men, educational advancement during the course of their lives or in the earlier generation is more favourable to achieving higher stature, whereas for women, the multi-generational tradition of a high educational status is of greater significance.

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“…Several studies on familial data or on twin data have shown that there is a strong genetic component in attained height at each age, and at adulthood (Bielicki and Welon 1966, Welon and Bielicki 1971, Welon 1976, Gerylovova and Bouchalova 1974, Mueller 1978, Susanne and Sharma 1978, Kaur and Singh 1981, Devi and Reddi 1983, Byard, Siervogel and Roche 1983, Livshits 1986. Much less is known about the genetic control of growth rate, the shape of the growth curve or about short-term variations in growth velocity (Sharma 1983, Bergman, Grzesiowski and Szmyd 1981, Little, Malina and Buschang 1990, Byard et al 1993.…”

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Genetic variance in the pattern of the growth curve for height: a longitudinal analysis of male twins

Hauspie

Bergman²,

Bielicki

et al. 1994

Annals of Human Biology

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Genetic aspects of the pattern of growth and of short-term variations in growth velocity for height were studied in a sample of 44 MZ and 42 DZ twin pairs from the Wroclaw Longitudinal Twin Study. The data consists of serial measurements of height, taken between 8.5 years of age and adulthood. The intra-pair resemblance of the pattern of attained height was quantified by means of the average Euclidean distance coefficient and the coefficient of shape difference, calculated on the raw height-for-age data. Comparison of these resemblance coefficients between the two types of twins indicated that the growth curves of MZ twins are closer to each other, and more similar in shape, than those of DZ twins. The shape of the growth curve was further characterized by a set of biological parameters, derived from Preece Baines model I (PB) fitted to each subject's serial growth data. Genetic analysis of these parameters, according to the model of Christian, Won Kang and Norton (1974), revealed a strong genetic component in the variance of size at particular milestones in the growth process (height at take-off, at peak velocity and at adulthood), and also in the timing of the growth process (age at take-off and at peak velocity). Height velocity at take-off and peak height velocity were also strongly genetically determined. Finally, short-term variations in growth velocity were analysed on the basis of the profiles of the residuals, obtained by the PB fits to each subject's serial measurements of height. Resemblance coefficients were calculated for the profiles of residuals. The results revealed a significantly greater similarity of profile shapes of the residuals in MZ twins than in DZ twins, strongly suggesting that there is a genetic component in the short-term variations of growth velocity.

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The relationship between children's and parents' heights in the age-range 0 – 6 years

Cited by 17 publications

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The Bacon Chow study: Genetic analysis of physical growth in assessment of energy–protein malnutrition

The Bacon Chow study: Genetic analysis of physical growth in assessment of energy–protein malnutrition

Inter-Generational Educational Advancement and Body Height

Genetic variance in the pattern of the growth curve for height: a longitudinal analysis of male twins

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