The relationship between anogenital distance, fatherhood, and fertility in adult men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Eisenberg, Michael L ^a   Hsieh, Michael H ^b   Walters, Rustin Chanc ^a   Krasnow, Ross ^a   Lipshultz, Larry I ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDLESSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FATHER; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; PENIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCROTUM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAL CANAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNITY;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FERTILITY; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATERNITY;

EID: 79955895856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018973     Document Type: Article

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