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Scientists have identified a "hot spot of giants" in Northern Ireland, where many people carry a mutant gene that makes them grow taller than normal people.

Scientists have identified a land in Northern Ireland that has a lot of tall people that outperform normal people.

One in 150 people in Mid-Ulster Province, Northern Ireland, has a mutant gene that makes them taller than normal.

According to research by a group of scientists led by Professor Patrick Morrison, President of Ulster Medical Association (Northern Ireland), this mutant gene is believed to have appeared since the Iron Age , 2,500 years ago.

Scientists estimate that one in 150 people in the Mid-Ulster province in Northern Ireland has the mutated gene. (Meanwhile, this rate across the UK is 1 / 2,000 people).

The study is based on DNA tests in Dungannon, Cookstown and even Tyrone (all in Northern Ireland). Mutated genes have been detected in more than 400 people and at least 15 families in Northern Ireland are identified as carriers of this gene.

Mid-Ulster "hot spot of giants" map.

More than three-quarters of people with this gene have never had any health problems. However, they face the risk of dying from heart failure or bleeding. 10 to 15% of these suffer from acromegaly due to the body producing and secrete excessive growth hormone.

Professor Patrick Morrison, president of Ulster Medical Association, said: "Most giants look scary, but they are weak individuals. If you are over 2m, your heart must pump. stronger to get blood to the brain, which can lead to heart failure ".

Brendan Holland, from Dungannon in Northern Ireland, supports the study of mutant genes, which carries this gene and is as high as 2.1 meters. If Brendan does not receive radiation therapy to prevent height growth due to the genetic mutation that is affected, he may be nearly 2.5m tall and may soon die as his ancestor Charles Byrne.

Charles Byrne's "giant" picture is nearly 2.5m tall but dies prematurely at 22 years old.

In the 18th century, "giant" Charles Byrne in Drumullan, Tyrone district, Northern Ireland also brought mutant genes and nearly 2.5 m tall suddenly died at the age of 22. Charles Byrne was a famous artist of the time. Now, but alcoholism and died only 1 year after coming to London to set up in 1782.

Although after his death, Charles wanted to be buried in the sea but this did not happen. The nearly 2.5m tall skeleton of this "giant" is displayed in the London Museum.

The skeleton of the "giant" Charles Byrne (leftmost) at the London museum.

Sharing about the condition of the giants, Brendan said: "Many people stare at people with huge, huge bodies and think they are very healthy. But reality is more cruel. Not just oversized height - I was tortured by smoldering throbbing pain in my head and fainted at school ".

Brendan's headaches come from a benign tumor that forms in the pituitary just below a part of the brain. The pituitary is the "culprit" that turns a person into a "giant " when producing and secrete too many growth hormones.

This tumor is also located near the optic nerve, so it can cause vision problems of giants.

"I was lucky because I was actually treated and received the best treatment. My mother passed the mutation to me and she never knew it. Many people today are carrying genes. This mutation is not known, "said Brendan.