Paediatric Nurse Specialist, Endocrinology - King's College Hospital

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06 Sept 2011

Research on mice published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has linked the ratio of the ring and forefinger length with the balance of the sex hormones oestrogen and testosterone in the developing embryo.

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