Sentence examples for being associated with height from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
Another hypothesis is that cryptorchidism may be associated with height, although Taskinen and Wikstrom (2004) found no evidence of this association.
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].
The GHRHR gene is located in this region and typing of tagSNPs identified a haplotype that is associated with height (p = 0.00077) in the original study population.
In previous studies a haplotype of ESR1 defined by the SNP rs2234693 was associated with height in females and young boys [23], [24].
In this study, birth weight was associated with height in both boys and girls, but birth weight was only associated with fat free mass (measured as Fat Free Mass Index = FFM/height2) in boys [22].
The last SNP is located downstream of the gene, but their data does not include an analysis of haplotypes spanning the part of the GHRHR gene we found to be associated with height.
