%0 Journal Article
%T A Comparison of Anthropometric, Metabolic, and Reproductive Characteristics of Young Adult Women from Opposite-Sex and Same-Sex Twin Pairs
%A Pirkko Korsoff
%A Leonie H. Bogl
%A Richard J. Rose
%A Jaakko Kaprio
%J Frontiers in Endocrinology
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fendo.2014.00028
%X Background: Prenatal exposure to androgens has been linked to masculinization of several traits. We aimed to determine whether putative female intra-uterine exposure to androgens influences anthropometric, metabolic, and reproductive parameters using a twin design.
%K prenatal androgen exposure
%K twin testosterone transfer hypothesis
%K opposite-sex twin pairs
%K anthropometrics
%K reproductive history
%K lipoprotein profile
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fendo.2014.00028/abstract