Limb Lengthening Forum
Community Hangout => Off Topic => Topic started by: yogobro298 on April 24, 2018, 10:15:13 PM
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Lets say someone who was originally 5'7 did ll and is now 5'11 this person gets married and has a child with someone who is 5'1. Would the child inherit the genes of both 5'11 and 5'1 or would it be 5'7 and 5'1?
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Results of any surgical procedure, including lengthened legs, do not get passed down through DNA.
If your logic worked, South Koreans wouldn't need any cosmetic surgery anymore; instead they're the plastic surgery capital of the world. Curable hereditary diseases, like heart valve issues, would have been bred out by now as well.
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I know you didn't exactly say that, but let me just say that "5'7 genes" and "5'1 genes" aren't how you should think about genetics and height.
As an addendum: you can do IVF to have a daughter if you ever find yourself in the position of wanting a family, but you are worried about delegating a son to all the heightism you know it exists in the world. Alternatively, you could plan way ahead and save enough money in a bank account just to treat a son with AIs and HGH injections, granted you got the clear from a medical specialist, in our current days. In the future, much more effective methods will exist to guarantee no children end up as short adults, so one could just wait enough time too.
As Android already answered the question to your topic, I just inferred these could be things that you worry about.
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Results of any surgical procedure, including lengthened legs, do not get passed down through DNA.
If your logic worked, South Koreans wouldn't need any cosmetic surgery anymore; instead they're the plastic surgery capital of the world. Curable hereditary diseases, like heart valve issues, would have been bred out by now as well.
Would be fun if it did.
The good news is that all the natural height you attained until your adult life (e.g., through nutrition) is partially heritable by your children.
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Height genes don't change (the answer to your question) but most importantly, they don't mix equally. Whatever you do, seriously, please don't have a son with a 5'1" woman. Regardless of whether the father is 5'7" or 5'11" naturally, the son of a 5'0" or 5'1" woman will almost always never end up taller than 5'5" or 5'6". You would be dooming the poor guy right from the start. It'd be like playing Russian Roulette with 5 bullets chambered.
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Not true. My son turned 13 this month and he is 5”7’ already. The same height as his dad. I’m sure he still has at least 3 inches before he stops growing.
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Height genes don't change (the answer to your question) but most importantly, they don't mix equally. Whatever you do, seriously, please don't have a son with a 5'1" woman. Regardless of whether the father is 5'7" or 5'11" naturally, the son of a 5'0" or 5'1" woman will almost always never end up taller than 5'5" or 5'6". You would be dooming the poor guy right from the start. It'd be like playing Russian Roulette with 5 bullets chambered.
I need to add that I am only 4”11’
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As long as LL exists I don't care if I have a short son.
The only difference will be that I'll need some thousand of euros more to pay his LL. But now that fully weight bearing magnetic nails exist and people can lengthen while continuing their everyday life, height is almost a choice if you have enough money.
And of course you can't inherit different genes after a cosetic procedure, this is a silly question.
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Height genes don't change (the answer to your question) but most importantly, they don't mix equally. Whatever you do, seriously, please don't have a son with a 5'1" woman. Regardless of whether the father is 5'7" or 5'11" naturally, the son of a 5'0" or 5'1" woman will almost always never end up taller than 5'5" or 5'6". You would be dooming the poor guy right from the start. It'd be like playing Russian Roulette with 5 bullets chambered.
I need to add that I am only 4”11’
Not true. My son turned 13 this month and he is 5”7’ already. The same height as his dad. I’m sure he still has at least 3 inches before he stops growing.
This is why I say no one should think of height genetics in simple terms like "5'1 genes" or "5'7 genes".
Besides it being a lotto, there are too many factors that affect one final's height.
Everyone has a genetic height potential (with it differing across populations, due to the different genes), nutritional and health height variables, etc. The son of Scandinavian immigrants who were often ill and undernourished throughout their lives will most likely be taller than his parents, granted he suddenly gets perfect healthcare and nutrition. His father could be 5'7 and his mother could be 5'1. He most likely wouldn't be as tall as modern Scandinavians who have had good nutrition and health going on for more generations than himself, but he should, in all likelihood, be taller than even his father.
The reverse is also possible: sometimes people from taller families will have one member, male or female, who's much shorter than the mean for their familial history, despite a history of good health and nutrition going back generations, just because of certain genes/SNPs/etc that appeared back dominantly in this specific person. This is just the lotto at work.
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I need to add that I am only 4”11’
Is your son's height one of the reasons you are considering LL?