Eugenics and a new master race ... or just a freak of nature?
A German toddler has massive muscles and can lift far heavier weights than other kids his age because of a natural genetic mutation, Markus Schuelke, a neurology specialist in Berlin, said.
Schuelke first examined the child, now four, as a newborn baby when his extraordinary muscle mass caused fears he might have a muscular problem. But the baby has developed into a healthy boy, normal apart from having muscles twice as big as normal which enable him to lift three-kilo weights.
Doctors have now proved for the first time that the child's muscles grew so large because of the absence or malfunctioning of the growth-curbing hormone myostatin.
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