The phrase "are associated with height" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing relationships or correlations between different factors and height, such as in scientific or statistical discussions.
Example: "The results of the study indicate that several genetic factors are associated with height in children."
Alternatives: "are linked to height" or "are correlated with height".
Variants in HMGA2 have been identified that are associated with height [ 24, 25], head circumference [ 38] intracranial volume [ 39] and permanent dentition [ 40].
Circulating levels of IGF-1 in adulthood are associated with height in men and inconsistently also in women [ 34, 35] and IGF-1 has consistently been associated with increased risk of cancer of the breast, prostate, and colorectum [ 35– 35].
Even though most vertebral fractures are painless, they are associated with height loss, reduced quality of life, respiratory dysfunction, social withdrawal (Burger et al 1997; Scane et al 1999) and decreased survival (Lau et al 2008).
We constructed genetic risk scores [ 21] for height and BMI using 179 and 32 variants, respectively, previously reported in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to be associated with height [ 23] and BMI [ 24].
In exploratory analyses, each of the TBMD and LBMD Z-scores was associated with height Z-score, with the association following a straight line with a change in the line's slope at height Z-score = −0.5.
Further, a variant in RAD51L1 reported in Lango Allen et al. (12) as being associated with height also showed suggestive evidence of association with primary tooth eruption in this study.
Another hypothesis is that cryptorchidism may be associated with height, although Taskinen and Wikstrom (2004) found no evidence of this association.
The high mobility group AT-hook 2 (HMGA2, 153.7 Mb) gene is particularly relevant because polymorphism at this transcriptional regulator has been associated with height in humans and body size in horses and dogs20.
The estimated effect size of the GHRHR haplotypes is considerably higher than that of other SNPs found to be associated with height [2] [4], [22], [23].
