Secular trends for takeoff and maximum adolescent growth for eight decades of japanese cohort data

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 702-712

  Ali, Md Ayub ^a   Lestrel, Pete E ^b   Ohtsuki, Fumio ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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