{"id":30712,"date":"2010-11-14T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-future-indian-yao-ming-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:12:55","slug":"the-future-indian-yao-ming-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-future-indian-yao-ming-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"The future Indian Yao Ming | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a nation of ~1 billion, even one where a large minority are positively malnourished, you’d expect some really tall people. So not that surprising: NBA Awaits Satnam From India, So Big and Athletic at 14<\/a>:<\/p>

In a country of 1.3 billion people, 7-foot, 250-pound Satnam Singh Bhamar has become a beacon for basketball hope.<\/p>

At age 14.<\/p>

…<\/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. His grandmother on his father’s side is 6-9.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>

Punjab is one of India’s more prosperous states<\/a>. Interestingly this kid’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’s very little expected<\/em> regression back to the population mean for any given child. The article doesn’t mention the mother’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>

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