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Genetics of Maturational Processes

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Principles and Prenatal Growth

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The genetics of human maturational events, like the conventional genetics of dimensional development, has long been inferred from two different, quasi-experimental procedures. The first of these is the population comparison. The second of these involves family-line analysis. Together, under optimal conditions, they provide a partial indication of the extent to which specific maturational events differ in timing, between natural populations, on a primarily genetic basis.

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Garn, S.M., Bailey, S.M. (1978). Genetics of Maturational Processes. In: Falkner, F., Tanner, J.M. (eds) Principles and Prenatal Growth. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0814-0_12

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