Early-to-mid gestation fetal testosterone increases right hand 2D:4D finger length ratio in polycystic ovary syndrome-like monkeys

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Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Abbott, Andrew D ^a   Colman, Ricki J ^a   Tiefenthaler, Ross ^a   Dumesic, Daniel A ^a,d   Abbott, David H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS; FINGER; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHALANX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOE; X RAY;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; FINGER PHALANGES; FINGERS; HAND JOINTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865186999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042372     Document Type: Article

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