MeganThere has been a lot of these types of research papers around for quite a while now discussing the relationship of finger length difference and androgen exposure. The abstract I’ve pasted below is one of the latest. I don’t have the full text article but it sounds interesting.
Authors McIntyre MH.
Institution Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677
Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. mmcintyr@hsph.harvard.edu Title
The use of digit ratios as markers for perinatal androgen action. [Review]
Source Reproductive Biology & Endocrinology. 4:10, 2006.
Since the ratio of the second-to-fourth finger length was first proposed
as a marker for prenatal androgen action in 1998, over 100 studies have
been published that have either further tested the association between the
digit ratio and prenatal androgens, or employed digit ratios as a marker
to investigate the association between prenatal androgens and a variety of
outcomes, including behavior, fertility, and disease risks. Despite the
clear demand for an adult marker of prenatal androgen action and increased
use of digit ratios as such a marker, its validity remains controversial.
This review (1) evaluates current evidence for the relationship between
digit ratios and prenatal androgens (using experimentation with animal
models, amniotic testosterone, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia
case-control studies), (2) describes opportunities for future validation
tests, and (3) compares the potential advantages and disadvantages of
digit ratio measures with more established methods for studying the
effects of prenatal androgens. [References: 86]