Osteological evidence in the form of rare tooth transpositions has shown that some Early period Channel Islanders suffered from inbreeding (Nelson 1992; Sholts et al. 2010a), a condition that typically prevents people from reaching their full genetic potential for stature (Mange 1964).
In addition, there may be potential interactions between stature components and other risk factors, such as waist circumference (which reflects current adult metabolic status), that may highlight the match-mismatch between early and late life (2, 22), although to our knowledge this has not been investigated in the literature.
GH treatment benefits growth potential in short-stature children born SGA.
Another theme was the potential for raising the stature of the state's fractured university system.
What's less certain is whether they could replace him with a 21-year-old of similar stature and potential.
Now he must show he has the potential to grow in stature as his young team find their feet in the top-flight.
He had believed Adkins, the man who made the unlikely leap from physiotherapist to manager, had the potential to grow in stature and succeed in the top-flight where others with reputations forged at a lower level had failed.
Without their work, not only will Syria's food security crisis go from bad to worse in the short run, but serious damage will be done to the country's longer-term resilience and potential to regain its stature as a self-sufficient middle-income country able to export wheat.
The HCT conditioning regimens, which may include total body irradiation (TBI) and/or chemotherapy, often result in growth suppression, gonadal dysfunction, thyroid dysfunction, and epiphyseal growth plate damage, all potential causes of short stature (14– 214.
Was that not a bit near the knuckle given the way some have seen Taylor's stature as a potential weakness?
