Free testosterone levels in umbilical-cord blood predict infant head circumference in females

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Whitehouse, Andrew J O ^a   Maybery, Murray T ^a   Hart, Roger ^b   Sloboda, Deborah M ^c   Stanley, Fiona J ^a   Newnham, John P ^b   Hickey, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN GROWTH; CEPHALOMETRY; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD;

ALBUMINS; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANTHROPOMETRY; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 76349100734     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03546.x     Document Type: Article

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