ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Status of physical activity in Japanese adults and children

Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphism and osteoporosis risk in White British men

Sitting height percentiles in 3–17-year-old Indian children: a multicentre study

Forensic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of 23 Y-STR loci in the Miao population from Guizhou province, southwest China

Genetic structure and forensic characterisation of 19 X-chromosomal STR loci in Guizhou Sui population

Phylogeography of Y-chromosome haplogroup Q1a1a-M120, a paternal lineage connecting populations in Siberia and East Asia

Effect of a lower limb strength training programme on physical activity during the snowy season among community-dwelling elderly individuals

A discussion of statistical methods to characterise early growth and its impact on bone mineral content later in childhood

Reducing food portion sizes in the home to tackle obesity—is it that simple?

Paternal lineage of the Berbers from Aurès in Algeria: estimate of their genetic variation

Candidate gene variant effects on language disorders in Robinson Crusoe Island

Climate change, uncertainty and allostatic load

The value of anthropometric indices for childhood obesity in Japan

Nutrition intake among the Japanese elderly: an intergenerational comparison based on national health and nutrition survey scores

Genetic admixture history and forensic characteristics of Turkic-speaking Kyrgyz population via 23 autosomal STRs

Facial perception, self-esteem and psychosocial well-being in patients after nasal surgery due to trauma, cancer and aesthetic needs (cluster analysis of multiple interrelations)

The relative roles of maternal survival and inter-personal violence as selection pressures on the persistence of Neanderthal hypercoagulability alleles in modern Europeans

Forensic features and genetic structure of the Hotan Uyghur inferred from 27 forensic markers

Searching for archaic contribution in Africa

Forensic genetic polymorphisms and population structure of the Guizhou Bouyei people based on 19 X-STR loci

Genetic diversity of 23 STR loci in Guangxi Zhuang population and its phylogenetic relationship with 25 other populations

Untangling Neolithic and Bronze Age mitochondrial lineages in South Asia

Surnames in modern Russia

Auditory ossicles: a potential biomarker for maternal and infant health in utero

Sex-dependent effect of post-migration adaptation on height and relative lower leg length in Polish youth

Body mass index to predict fat mass and metabolic syndrome severity: should it really be specific to sex, age and ethnicity? A NHANES study (1999–2014)

Association of eating behaviour with clock gene polymorphism 3111 T\u2009>\u2009C in children based on nutritional status

Associations between body shape, body adiposity and other indices: a case study of hypertension in Chinese children and adolescents

Paternal lineages in southern Iberia provide time frames for gene flow from mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world

The mitochondrial DNA control region sequences from the Chinese Miao population of southeastern China

Population background exploration and genetic distribution analysis of Pakistan Hazara via 23 autosomal STRs

Interactive effects of adiposity and insulin resistance on the impaired lung function in asthmatic adults: cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data

Sanitation and diarrhoea in infancy and CRP level at 18 years: the birth-to-twenty plus cohort

Influence of weight status at 2 years on memory performance at 4–5 years of age

Biomedical and genetic characteristics of the Ryukyuans: demographic history, diseases and physical and physiological traits

Life expectancy and the Global Burden of Disease 1990–2016: little cause for complacency

Origin and identity of the Brokpa of Dah-Hanu, Himalayas – an NRY-HG L1a2 (M357) legacy

Genetic composition of Teochew population in Chaozhou revealed by 19 STR loci: population polymorphism and interpopulation comparisons

Thinness, overweight, and obesity in indigenous school children and youth in Mexico

Correlation between habitual dietary fibre intake and postprandial plasma glucose levels in early adulthood

The most relevant chromosomal abnormalities in the north of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 26 years of cytogenetic analysis

Paternal Y chromosomal genotyping reveals multiple large-scale admixtures in the formation of Lolo-Burmese–speaking populations in southwest China

Relationship between bone turnover markers and the heel stiffness index measured by quantitative ultrasound in post-menopausal Japanese women

Contemporary height, weight and body mass index references for children aged 0 to adulthood in Switzerland compared to the Prader reference, WHO and neighbouring countries*

Use of allometry and skinfold thicknesses to estimate the fat mass of circumpubertal boys

Mutation analysis of 21 autosomal short tandem repeats in Han population from Hunan, China

Genetic variants influencing obesity-related traits in Japanese population