Research Progress on Molecular Biology of Human Height Estimation

Abstract

As an important anthropometric characteristic， human height not only contributes to the recognition of other anthropological characteristics and genetic risk factors， but also is an important part of forensic DNA phenotyping studies. Accurate estimation of height can provide more complete information about the phenotype of suspects and provide help to solve cases. In recent years， having benefited from the rapid development of molecular biological techniques and bioinformatics， height-related genetics research has made some progress. This paper describes the research progress of human height estimation from the genetic variation and the epigenetic inheritance perspectives and looks into the future research direction.

Keywords

• |forensic genetics|molecular biology|height estimation|genetic variation|epigenetic|review