Erratum: A validated age-related normative model for male total:Testosterone shows increasing variance but no decline after age 40 years (PLoS ONE (2014) 9:10 (e109346) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109346);A validated age-related normative model for male total testosterone shows increasing variance but no decline after age 40 years

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Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Kelsey, Thomas W ^a   Li, Lucy Q ^b   Mitchell, Rod T ^c,d   Whelan, Ashley ^b   Anderson, Richard A ^d   Wallace, W Hamish B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; LIFESPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907833256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117674     Document Type: Erratum

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