title: Somatotypes of 14 to 19 years old urban boys and girls from Bilbao (Basque Country).
abstract: Following the anthropometric method of Heath-Carter (1967) individual somatotypes of a sample of 1260 school children (605 boys and 655 girls) living in Bilbao and aged between 14-19 years have been investigated. Age differences of the somatotype components and sexual dimorphism of the physique were also analyzed. In both sexes, somatotype varies with age. The main factor for these variations of the somatotype is in the boys the endomorphy, and in the girls the mesomorphy. The mean somatotypes of the total sample are in boys central (3.9-3.9-2.7) and in girls mesomorphic-endomorphic (5.3-3.1-2.3).
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología Animal y Genética (Antropología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rebato
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosique
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: González Apraiz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency / Q000235:genetics; D005819:Genetic Markers / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013008:Somatotypes / Q000235:genetics*; D013030:Spain; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers