Similar photoperiod-related birth seasonalities among professional baseball players and lesbian women with an opposite seasonality among gay men: Maternal melatonin may affect fetal sexual dimorphism

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 424-431

  Marzullo, Giovanni ^a  

^a Per Aspera Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

2D:4D ratios; Batting averages; Fetal testosterone; Homosexuality; Masculinity; Muscularity; POA nucleus

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; MELATONIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BASEBALL; BIRTH; BREEDING; FEMALE; FETUS; GESCHWIND GALABURDA TESTOSTERONE THEORY; HAND FUNCTION; HAND PREFERENCE; HOMOSEXUAL MALE; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; LESBIANISM; MALE; MASCULINITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORTH AMERICA; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUMMER; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; THEORY; WINTER;

2D:4D RATIOS; BATTING AVERAGES; FETAL TESTOSTERONE; HOMOSEXUALITY; MASCULINITY; MUSCULARITY; POA NUCLEUS;

AGE FACTORS; ATHLETES; BASEBALL; BRAIN; EUROPE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELATONIN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORTH AMERICA; PARTURITION; PHOTOPERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEASONS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SUNLIGHT; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899076385     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.02.022     Document Type: Article

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