Evidence for assortative mating on digit ratio (2D:4D), a biomarker for prenatal androgen exposure

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 599-612

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Dressler, Stefan G ^a   Manning, John T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRANDPARENT; HUMAN; MALE; MATING; PARENTAL AGE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROGENS; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REFERENCE VALUES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 34249112453     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932006001647     Document Type: Article

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