Re: short upper arm length as hereditary
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:11:03 -0500 (CDT)
This all sounds like normal variations based upon what you've written.
Hope this helps and write back anytime for more information.
Dr. M
At Sun, 30 Sep 2001, anonymous wrote:
>
>I'm wondering if my dad and I, who are both of short stature, have a
>shorter upper arm length than average in relation to lower arm (not a
>lot, but noticable, something I"ve been self-conscious about my whole
>life!), and if this showed up in a fetus during ultrasound, would it be
>reasonable to take this hereditary factor into consideration? Or is the
>fact that both I and my dad have this suggestive of some underlying
>problem that isn't manifest in other ways? My dad and all my siblings,
>as well as Dad's siblings, also have pronounced eye folds, which when I
>was a child was inappropriately called "Mongolian." Is there anything to
>this? My family members are all healthy,accomplished individuals. Can
>some of these variations just be normal hereditary features?
--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York
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