(CAMBRIDGE, MA) OCT 5 – THE LARGEST GENOME STUDY OF HEIGHT EVER WAS PUBLISHED TODAY IN THE JOURNAL NATURE GENETICS. RESEARCHERS SAY IT COULD POINT THE WAY FORWARD IN THE RESEARCH OF MANY OTHER DISEASES.
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DR. JOEL HIRSCHHORN, PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGIST AND AUTHOR OF STUDY OF MORE THAN A QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE’S GENOMES TO DETERMINE THE GENETIC LINKS TO HEIGHT, SAYS THERE HAS BEEN A DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER SUCH LARGE STUDIES ARE WORTH WHILE. THIS STUDY MAKES IT CLEAR THEY ARE, HE SAYS.