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tt1702y t1_ivyy62x wrote

Reply to comment by CharlesOSmith in Does malnourished parents effect how tall your final adult height would be? by [deleted]

So I would conclude that unless there was extreme severe malnourishment in the population, the malnourished parents will not effect their children’s final height?

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CharlesOSmith t1_ivz03yb wrote

That's not accurate. If the parents are malnourished, that is the trigger for epigenetic markings on their gametes. It doesn't have to be population wide.

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tt1702y t1_ivz0kjp wrote

Yes that’s true but wouldn’t it have to still be starvation for a long period of childhood to cause them to be malnourished. Also what epigenetic’s are you talking about since if you also don’t grow up malnourished, then it wouldn’t cause you to not gain your genetic potential in height. Correct?

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