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An anthropometric study for correlation between digit ratio and demographic and psychological parameters

 

Dinanath Pujari1, A Ashwini V2*

 

1Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, ESIC Medical College, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, INDIA.

2Professor, Department of Physiology, M. R. Medical College, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, INDIA.

Email: moukthikalaxmipublishinghouse@gmail.com

 

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