Assortative mating by body height and BMI: Finnish Twins and their spouses

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  American Journal of Human Biology

• Publication date

  2003-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1002/ajhb.10183PMID 12953173
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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