Anthropometric comparison between Japanese and Caucasian American male university students

Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-11

  Nakanishi, Yasuto ^a,b   Nethery, Vincent ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY CONSTITUTION; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY CONSTITUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 9744273343     PISSN: 13453475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2114/jpa.18.9     Document Type: Review

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