Population Biology of Human Aging: Segregation Analysis of Bone Age Characteristics

Human Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 539-554

  Livshits, Gregory ^a   Pavlovsky, Oleg ^b   Kobyliansky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Genetics; Osseographic method; Transmissibility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKMENISTAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEDIGREE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 0030211134     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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