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Genetic and Environmental Factors during the Growth Period

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Editors:
  1. C. Susanne

    1. Lab. Antropogenetika, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 70)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Methodology of Height Prediction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Predicting the Mature Stature of Preadolescent Children

      • R. Darrell Bock
      Pages 3-19

    3. Comments on “Predicting the Mature Stature of Preadolescent Children” by Darrell Bock

      • Noel Cameron
      Pages 21-27

  3. Anthropometric Surveys

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Methodology of a Cross-Sectional Nation-Wide Growth Study

      • J. C. van Wieringen, Machteld J. Roede
      Pages 37-47

    3. The Use of Anthropometric Surveys for Studies on the Genetics of Growth

      • William H. Mueller
      Pages 49-59

    4. Methods in Human Growth Genetics

      • Charles Susanne
      Pages 61-79

    5. Effect of Physical Activity on Functional Growth

      • Vassilis Klissouras
      Pages 81-90

  4. Medical Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Introduction

      • Machteld Roede
      Pages 99-100

    3. Human Growth up to Six Years — Distance and Velocity

      • Ingeborg Brandt
      Pages 101-122

    4. Medical Environment: Applications in the Field of Public Health

      • Geneviève Massé
      Pages 123-131

    5. Linear and Catch-Up Growth in Chronically Ill Children

      • L. Greco, M. Mayer-Greco
      Pages 133-143

    6. Medical Environment — Influences on Growth

      • Olcay Neyzi
      Pages 145-157

  5. Ecological Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Environment and Physical Growth

      • Anna Ferro-Luzzi
      Pages 169-198

    3. Ecological Environment Environment and Physical Growth: Random Comments on Ferro-Luzzi’s Overview

      • R. J. Rona
      Pages 199-208

    4. Auxological Epidemiology and the Determination of the Effects of Noise on Health

      • Lawrence M. Schell
      Pages 209-219

    5. Effects of Industrial Pollution on Somatic and Neuropsychological Development

      • Roland Hauspie, Marie-Christine Lauwers, Charles Susanne
      Pages 221-233
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About this book

This volume is dedicated to the study of growth and development from the points of view of public health and epidemiology. Many scientists agree that human physical growth and development represent a sensitive response to environmental conditions. From an epi­ demiological point of view, physical growth and development can be taken as a primary measure of the level of public health or of the quality of the environment. Reduced growth, smaller body size for instance, can be regarded as a response to adverse environmental conditions, as an indicator of environmental pressures. On the other hand, physical growth and development can also be viewed as development plasticity and as a strategy for human adaptation. However, various environmental ef­ fects cannot be isolated from the genetic factors which determine the individual background and the potential limits of growth. The aim of this volume is to evaluate these genetic and en­ vironmental influences as well as their interactions. Methodological work is therefore necessary, including, among others, mathematical methods summarizing the growth curve of an individual and predictinB the adult stature from measurements taken during childhood. Of course, methodological aspects are also implied in the way sampling is done and in the way surveys are conducted. And last but not least, methodological aspects are involved in the estimation of heritability during growth and development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lab. Antropogenetika, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

    C. Susanne

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Genetic and Environmental Factors during the Growth Period

  • Editors: C. Susanne

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1185-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-1187-4Published: 25 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-1185-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 248

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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