1Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, PESIMSR, Kuppam
2Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine & Sagar Dutta Hospital, Kolkata
3Professor & HOD, Forensic Medicine, PESIMSR, Kuppam
4Second Professional MBBS Student, PESIMSR, Kuppam
*Corresponding author: Dr. Kiran GT, Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, PESIMSR, Kuppam (517425). Chittoor. Andhra Pradesh. Ph: 8105103337. Email: drgt.kiran@gmail.com
Online published on 8 July, 2016.
Low right hand 2D: 4D (Index finger to ring finger length ratio) has been well established as a proxy for intrauterine exposure to testosterone and hence masculine traits in both males and females. Whether academic performance is also related to intrauterine exposure to testosterone (low 2D: 4D) has to be researched upon.
2D: 4D of both right and left hand of 54 male and 72 female medical students were taken with a digital vernier calipers and the correlation between 2D: 4D and academic performance was observed using appropriate statistical methods.
This study concurred with all previous studies that there was significant difference between Right hand 2D: 4D of males and females (p<0.05), males having lower 2D: 4D. There was no such finding in left hand 2D: 4D. This study also showed a mild positive correlation (0.16) which was statistically significant at p<0.1 for the association between right hand 2D: 4D and percentage marks scored in Forensic Medicine subject.
There was a mild positive correlation between 2D: 4D of right hand and academic performance in Forensic Medicine among Second Professional MBBS students.
2D4D, Academic performance, Forensic medicine, medical students
