Common DNA Variants Accurately Rank an Individual of Extreme Height

Table 1

Mr. Bradley’s height score percentiles when compared to the population data for random subsets of SNPs.

Set size	100	250	500	750	1000	1250	1500	1750	2000
Min	0	20.4	54.4	78.8	94.3	97.1	99.2	99.6	99.6
Q1	89.6	98.2	99.8
Median	96.9	99.6
Q3	99.3	99.9
Max

Table 1 Shawn Bradley’s height score quickly stabilizes at the highest rank as SNP-set size increases. Data are represented in percentiles. The “” indicates that his score was the highest.