Digit ratio (2D:4D), ABO blood type, and the Rhesus factor

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 737-746

  Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FINGER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59149097816     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.107.3.737-746     Document Type: Article

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