{"id":32527,"date":"2010-11-10T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T06:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2010-11-11T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T01:34:48","slug":"the-future-indian-yao-ming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/10\/the-future-indian-yao-ming\/","title":{"rendered":"The future Indian Yao Ming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a nation of ~1 billion, even one where a large minority are positively malnourished, you&#8217;d expect some really tall people. So not that surprising:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nba.fanhouse.com\/2010\/11\/10\/nba-awaits-satnam-from-india-so-big-and-athletic-at-14\/\">NBA Awaits Satnam From India, So Big and Athletic at 14<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a country of 1.3 billion people, 7-foot, 250-pound Satnam Singh Bhamar has become a beacon for basketball hope.<\/p>\n<p>At age 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That potential starts with his size, which is incredible itself. At age 14, he is expected to grow for another couple of years. For now, he wears a size-22 basketball shoe. His hands swallow the ball. His father, Balbir Singh Bhamara, is 7-2.<strong> His grandmother on his father&#8217;s side is 6-9.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Punjab is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/01\/when-wealth-doesnt-matter-for-height-south-asia-africa\/\">India&#8217;s more prosperous states<\/a>. Interestingly this kid&#8217;s paternal grandmother is as tall in standard deviation units as her son or grandson. In Western developed societies height  is 80-90% heritable. That means that there&#8217;s very little <em>expected<\/em> regression back to the population mean for any given child. The article doesn&#8217;t mention the mother&#8217;s height though. If she is of more normal size then Satnam is either a fluke, or, there are dominant large effect rare alleles being passed down by the father, perhaps from the paternal grandmother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a nation of ~1 billion, even one where a large minority are positively malnourished, you&#8217;d expect some really tall people. So not that surprising:\u00a0NBA Awaits Satnam From India, So Big and Athletic at 14:<br \/>\nIn a country of 1.3 billion people, 7-foot, 250-pound Satnam Singh Bhamar has become a beacon for basketball hope.<br \/>\nAt age 14.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThat [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,508,509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-height","category-quantitative-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32612,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32527\/revisions\/32612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}