Reliability of 2D:4D measurements using a direct method suitable for clinical settings

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 339-342

  Costas, Laura ^a,b,c   Papadopoulou, Eleni ^d,e,f,g   Perez Gomez, Beatriz ^h,i   Basagaña, Xavier ^d,e,i   Alarcon, Francesc ^a,i   Casabonne, Delphine ^a,i   Benavente, Yolanda ^a,i   Castaño Vinyals, Gemma ^d,e,i   Kogevinas, Manolis ^d,e,g,i   de Sanjosé, Silvia ^a,b,i  

^a BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^g NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^h CNE ISCIII ^*  (Spain)

ⁱ CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

2D:4D; Digit; Hormonal; Ratio; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878155366     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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