# DESCRIPTION AND PREDICTION OF HUMAN GROWTH IN STATURE

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · 1994 · $94,733

## Abstract

The project will investigate and perfect analytical tools for the
description and prediction of growth in children.  These procedures, which
have been successfully tested in prototype, describe serial measurements
over all or part of the growth cycle in terms of a compact model well
suited to the study of genetic and environmental determinants of
development. They also support an accurate and flexible system for the
clinical evaluation of current growth status and the prediction of future
growth as part of the preparation for the treatment of developmental
disorders.

The project will complement this structural approach to the analysis of
serial measurements with a nonstructural description of more detailed
variation within the main phases of growth in early, middle and late
childhood. Our preliminary studies by this method already indicate the
presence of "miniphases" of growth acceleration and deceleration during
the years from four to adolescence. Further study, using the growth
records for parent and offspring in two- and three-generation families
available in the database of the Fels Longitudinal Study, will enable us
to evaluate indications that these short-range growth phases have a
heritable basis.

The analytical tools developed in the project will be implemented in
computerized form suitable for research and clinical use.  They will
include a procedure adapted to monitoring changes in the velocity and
extent of growth during and following treatment interventions.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2199833
- **Project number:** 2R01HD026031-04A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
- **SAM.gov UEI:** ZUE9HKT2CLC9
- **Principal Investigator:** R DARRELL BOCK
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1994
- **Award amount:** $94,733
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1989-08-01 → 1996-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2199833

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2199833, DESCRIPTION AND PREDICTION OF HUMAN GROWTH IN STATURE (2R01HD026031-04A1). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2199833. Licensed CC0.

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