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FingerRatio

2D:4D Finger Ratio


Description

The ratio of the lengths of the index finger to the ring finger in 46 males and the number of CAG repeats for each.

Format

A data frame with 46 observations on the following 2 variables.

CAGrepeats

a numeric vector of the number of CAG repeats

finger.ratio

a numeric vector of the ratio of digit 2 to digit 4

Source

inferred from Manning, J.T., P.E. Bundred, D.J. Newton, and B.F. Flanagan. 2003. The second to fourth digit ratio and variation in the androgen receptor gene. Evolution and Human Behavior 24: 399-405.

References

Examples

str(FingerRatio)
xyplot(finger.ratio ~ CAGrepeats, FingerRatio,
  xlab = "Number of CAG Repeats",
  ylab = "2D:4D Ratio"
)

abd

The Analysis of Biological Data

v0.2-8
GPL-2
Authors
Kevin M. Middleton <middletonk@missouri.edu>, Randall Pruim <rpruim@calvin.edu>
Initial release
2015-07-02

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