why was ronnie corbett small
Scientists today claim to have discovered the first common gene that influences whether someone is tall or short.It explains why John Cleese towers over a room, and why Ronnie Corbett can claim: I'm so short I'm the only citizen in the UK to have a full-length photo in my passport..he scientist discovered two variants of the HMGA2 gene, one that makes us shorter and one that makes us taller. Those who carried two tall versions are around 1cm taller than those carrying two short versions, they report in Nature Genetics.