Heritability of fluctuating asymmetry in a human twin sample: The effect of trait aggregation

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 651-658

  Johnson, Wendy ^a,b   Gangestad, Steven W ^c   Segal, Nancy L ^d   Bouchard Jr , Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENETIC TRAIT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWINS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS;

EID: 58849123435     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20788     Document Type: Article

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