Contribution of genetics and environment to craniofacial anthropometric phenotypes in Belgian nuclear families

Human Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 637-654

  Jelenkovic, Aline ^a   Poveda, Alaitz ^a   Susanne, Charles ^b   Rebato, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Belgium; Craniofacial size traits; Heritability; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BODY HEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; VARIMAX ROTATION;

EID: 68049095248     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/1534-6617-80.6.637     Document Type: Article

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