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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my observations, boys take after moms and girls after dads. It makes sense, because boys inherit more genes from their mothers than from their fathers and 80% of height is genetic.  In general,  short moms have short sons and tall daughters if the dad is tall. Sometimes it's fascinating to see. I went to college with these 2 siblings,  mom was a very tiny Vietnamese lady and the dad very tall, over 6'3. Their daughter was 6 ft tall and her brother barely 5'10. [/quote]

This is not true but keep sipping the kool aid [/quote]

I don't know what planet you are from, but for us humans, the DNA in our mitochondria comes only from the biological mothers. [/quote]

Mitochondrial DNA makes up only 0.1% of the overall human genome and is passed down exclusively from mother to child.   [/quote]

Yes. That 0.1% controls the nuclear DNA and is a strong determinant of several metabolic metrics, autoimmune diseases susceptibility such as MS, life span and height. Read about maternal T2D inheritance. 
There is also evidence that there is a strong maternal heritability of body mass index and obesity should be treated as a maternal inherited disease and not a willpower, overeating problem. 
Nature is cruel. [/quote]that certainly happened with my kids. Unfortunately [/quote]

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