Brenden Adams

Brenden Adams (born September 20, 1995 in Ellensburg , Washington ) was the greatest known teenager in the world in the 2000s . His father, Willie Adams, and mother, Debbie Ezell, noticed about two months after Brenden was born that something was wrong with the boy's height. Its extreme increase in length is due to a disruption of the 12th chromosome .

In his spare time he plays on a junior high school football team. In 2008, when he was 225 cm tall, there was an attempt to stop his length gain.

Its growth curve is very similar to that of Robert Wadlow . Experts suggested that if it kept growing at this rate, it would grow to over 244 cm. Treatment with high-dose testosterone has now stopped its growth.

Growth table

Comparison of the growth in length of Brenden Adams and Robert Wadlow

Age	size	Size of a ...	Growth rate
birth	49.5 cm	Newborn
2 years	116.8 cm	6 year olds	67.3 cm or + 136.0%
3 years	127 cm	8 year old	10.2 cm or + 8.7%
4 years	137.2 cm	10 year old	10.2 cm or + 8.0%
5 years	147.3 cm	12 year olds	10.1 cm or + 7.4%
6 years	155 cm	13 year olds	7.7 cm or + 5.2%
7 years	160 cm	14 year olds	5 cm or + 3.2%
8 years	170.2 cm	15 year olds	10.2 cm or + 6.4%
9 years	180.3 cm		10.1 cm or + 5.9%
ten years	185.4 cm		5.1 cm or + 2.8%
11 years	198.1 cm		12.7 cm or + 6.9%
12 years	223.5 cm		25.4 cm or + 12.8%
13 years	224.8 cm		1.3 cm or + 0.6%
14 years	226.1 cm		1.3 cm or + 0.6%
15 years	227.3 cm		1.2 cm or + 0.5%
16 years	228.6 cm		1.3 cm or + 0.6%
17 years	231.1 cm		2.5 cm or +1.1%
18 years	231.1 cm		0.0 cm or +0.0%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.RNA-re.org/brenden-adams-tallest-teenager  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=5466774&page=1
3. ↑ http://www.aolnews.com/2009/11/06/7-foot-4-brenden-adams-joins-middle-school-football-team/
4. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2650445/Doctors-halt-growth-of-seven-foot-boy-Brenden-Adams.html