Heritability of human cranial dimensions: Comparing the evolvability of different cranial regions

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-35

  Martínez Abadías, Neus ^a   Esparza, Mireia ^a   Sjøvold, Torstein ^b   González José, Rolando ^c   Santos, Mauro ^d   Hernández, Miquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolvability; Heritability; Human skull; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRANIOMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; CEPHALOMETRY; EVOLUTION; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SKULL;

EID: 58149343777     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.01015.x     Document Type: Article

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