Second to fourth digit ratio: A predictor of disease in later life?

Maturitas

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-2

  Muller, David C ^a,b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTIANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; HORMONE; HOX PROTEIN; HOXA PROTEIN; HOXD PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULTHOOD; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EDITORIAL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FINGER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK FACTOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84876455655     PISSN: 03785122     EISSN: 18734111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2013.01.017     Document Type: Editorial

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