Genetic influences on the difference in variability of height, weight and body mass index between Caucasian and East Asian adolescent twins
Open Access
- 9 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Obesity
- Vol. 32 (10), 1455-1467
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2008.144
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