Estimating the heritability of hair curliness in twins of European ancestry

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 514-518

  Medland, Sarah E ^a   Zhu, Gu ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Hair texture; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR; HAIR TEXTURE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; CAUCASIAN; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TWINS;

EDAR PROTEIN, HUMAN; EDAR RECEPTOR; FGFR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; EDAR RECEPTOR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 2; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 71849119671     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.12.5.514     Document Type: Article

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