Heritability of anthropometric phenotypes in caste populations of Visakhapatnam, India

Human Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 325-344

  Arya, Rector ^a   Duggirala, Ravindranath ^a   Comuzzie, Anthony G ^a   Puppala, Sobha ^a   Modem, Saileela ^a   Busi, Bhaskara R ^a   Crawford, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Andhra castes; Anthropometric phenotypes; Heritability; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; NUTRITION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL CLASS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036023251     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2002.0026     Document Type: Article

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