The abnormal growth rate appeared when daily ration was below 3.30% of body weight,implied that Japanese halfbeak may get other food resources besides supplied net zooplankton.
In Leningher's Principles of Biochemistry textbook, they give the example of how injecting the human growth hormone gene into a mouse makes it unusually large.
Another condition along the lines of abnormal bodily growth is epidermodysplasia verruciformis, or EV, more commonly thought of as " tree man syndrome" .
One example is thyroid hyperplasia, an enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by an abnormal rapid growth of the epithelial cells lining the follicles.
For instance, skin cancer is often associated with abnormal growths on the surface of the skin, including bumps, discoloration, lesions, or changes to existing moles.
" Hamart" means " fault" , so hamartomas are actually the result of an abnormal formation of normal tissue, so basically there was some fault in how the tissue grew.