Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Tall stature
Increased body height
HP:0000098
What it means
A height above that which is expected according to age and gender norms.
Rare diseases that can present with this48
Very common80–99%
22- 47,XYY syndrome
- 48,XYYY syndrome
- Aromatase deficiency
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Carpenter syndrome
- CHIME syndrome
- Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
- Dysmorphism-cleft palate-loose skin syndrome
- Estrogen resistance syndrome
- Familial peripheral male-limited precocious puberty
- Hydrocephaly-tall stature-joint laxity syndrome
- Marfanoid habitus-autosomal recessive intellectual disability syndrome
- Monosomy 9q22.3 syndrome
- Overgrowth-macrocephaly-facial dysmorphism syndrome
- Perlman syndrome
- Pituitary gigantism
- Sclerosteosis
- Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
- Somatomammotropinoma
- Sotos syndrome
- Weaver syndrome
- X-linked acrogigantism
Common30–79%
11- 48,XXXY syndrome
- 48,XXYY syndrome
- Capillary-lymphatic-venous malformation with segmental distribution
- Diabetic embryopathy
- Gamma-aminobutyric acid transaminase deficiency
- Loeys-Dietz syndrome
- Malan overgrowth syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- TRIM32-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R8
- Trisomy X syndrome
- X-linked intellectual disability, Stevenson type
Sometimes5–29%
14- 17p13.3microduplication syndrome
- 2p15p16.1microdeletion syndrome
- Acrocallosal syndrome
- Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome
- CLAPO syndrome
- Classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency
- Deafness with labyrinthine aplasia, microtia, and microdontia
- Distal duplication 15q syndrome
and 6 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Accelerated linear growth · Increased linear growth
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