Genetics of human body size and shape: Body proportions and indices

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 271-289

  Livshits, Gregory ^a   Roset, A ^a   Yakovenko, K ^a   Trofimov, S ^a   Kobyliansky, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY;

ASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RUSSIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036013428     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460110085322     Document Type: Article

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