Scientists Discover 83 Genetic Mutations That Help Determine Your Height

“Overall, common variants still contribute more to height than rare variants,” Dr. Joel Hirschhorn, the study’s lead author and a professor of pediatrics and genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told The Huffington Post. “But, for the person who happens to carry one of the rare variants, the impact can be much greater than for common variants. For the variants we looked at, this was up to almost an inch… as opposed to a millimeter or less for the common variants.”