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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just for some perspective, DH is 5'3" and life is not too terrible.  He married a short woman (5') and is a successful professional with two awesome kids and is financially comfortable.

Just to throw out there that being short is jot the end of the world as some are implying.[/quote]

I don't think the OP was implying that being short is the end of the world.

She is 6-1.  Her husband is 6-5.  It's perfectly reasonable for her to wonder why her son is well below the 50th percentile for his age.  Short people are amazing and have great lives, but [b]two people of that height are very unlikely to produce one of these wonderful people[/b].[/quote]

No, not really. I work with somebody who is 6-5. His fraternal twin brother is 5-8. And my 5-3 mother and 5-8 father produced a 6-0 son.[/quote]

I think some of you really need a basic genetics class.  Of course siblings can vary widely in height from each other and that's likely because their parents vary widely in height (relative to the mean for their sex).  In your twins case, it's very possible they had a very tall dad and a shorter mom or vice versa.  But it is pretty unusual for two extremely tall people to produce a significantly shorter than average son.  A 6-1 woman and a 6-5 man are WAY off the normal growth chart (99th percentile+).  They are both 7+ inches taller than the mean.  It is absolutely a red flag that they have a child below the 50th percentile for height.  Maybe everything is fine, but why not get the kid checked out.

Your just below average height parents producing a just above average height son isn't particularly relevant either.

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Yeah, no. Even if height is highly heritable, there are still going to be lots of exceptions. Tall parents with short kids, short parents with tall kids. And that's entirely apart from regression to the mean.[/quote]

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