Abstract Background Anogenital distance is a well-validated marker of prenatal testosterone, with shorter distances indicating lower levels during early gestation. A suite of studies has linked anogenital distance with risk of endometriosis…
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) exhibits high prevalence and heritability despite causing negative impacts on fertility and fecundity. Previous hypotheses have postulated that some PCOS-associated traits, especially above-average levels of…
Bernard J Crespi,1 Susan F Evans2 1Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; 2Adelaide Medical School, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaCorr…
Hippocrates attributed women's high emotionality - hysteria - to a 'wandering womb'. Although hysteria diagnoses were abandoned along with the notion that displaced wombs cause emotional disturbance, recent research suggests that elevated l…