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Researchers uncover new piece to the puzzle of human height

In studies involving more than 35,000 people and a survey across the entire human genome, an international team supported in part by the National Institutes of Health has found evidence that common genetic variants recently linked to osteoarthritis may also play a minor role in human height. The findings were released today in the advance online publication of the journal Nature Genetics.

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