Marked limb bilateral asymmetry in an agricultural endogamous population of North India

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 674-685

  Krishan, Kewal ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIA; LEG; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIA; LEG; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961171397     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.21196     Document Type: Article

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