Our findings of higher body weight and height among early menarche females as compared to late menarche females corresponds to earlier findings of Indian study by Bagga and Kulakarni (2000) on normal females and Jamaican study by Serjeant et al (2000) on SCD females.9,11 This implies that skeletal maturation is associated with menarcheal age besides eNOS gene polymorphism. Here, NOS3 is linked to Schnyder corneal dystrophy.