Winkler E M, Christiansen K
Institut für Humanbiologie, Universität Wien, Austria.
Ann Hum Biol. 1991 Jul-Aug;18(4):341-55. doi: 10.1080/03014469100001652.
Correlations between sex hormone levels and body dimensions--so far investigated only in Caucasian populations--were analysed using data from 114 !Kung San hunter-gatherers and 137 urban and rural Kavango men from Namibia. The androgens testosterone (Tser) and 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in the serum and free testosterone in the saliva (Tsal) as well as oestradiol (E2) in the serum were determined by the radioimmunoassay method. The body dimensions were described by 50 anthropometric features which were additionally subjected to factor analysis yielding seven factors. Most of the individual measurements as well as the resulting factor scores correlated significantly with the sex hormone variables and the hormone ratios Tser/DHT, Tsal/Tser, and Tser/E2 in the !Kung San and the two Kavango samples. For an extended comparison pertinent data from a German sample were included in the analysis. This made it possible to test the stability of metric hormonal correlations in different populations living under various ecological and economical conditions. While the breadth measurements in all samples show relatively consistent correlations to both absolute hormones and hormone ratios, the correlations to the other body measurements and individual factor scores turn out to be less stable. Here, the effect of sex hormones on physical growth, which is experimentally well documented, is obviously differentially covered by genetic and environmental factors specific for the groups in question.
性激素水平与身体尺寸之间的相关性——迄今为止仅在高加索人群中进行过研究——使用来自114名!昆桑狩猎采集者以及137名纳米比亚城市和农村卡万戈男性的数据进行了分析。血清中的雄激素睾酮（Tser）和5α - 二氢睾酮（DHT）、唾液中的游离睾酮（Tsal）以及血清中的雌二醇（E2）通过放射免疫分析法测定。身体尺寸由50项人体测量特征描述，这些特征还进行了因子分析，得出7个因子。在!昆桑人和两个卡万戈样本中，大多数个体测量值以及由此得出的因子得分与性激素变量以及激素比率Tser/DHT、Tsal/Tser和Tser/E2显著相关。为了进行更广泛的比较，分析中纳入了来自德国样本的相关数据。这使得能够检验在不同生态和经济条件下生活的不同人群中激素度量相关性的稳定性。虽然所有样本中的宽度测量值与绝对激素和激素比率都显示出相对一致的相关性，但与其他身体测量值和个体因子得分的相关性则不太稳定。在这里，实验充分证明的性激素对身体生长的影响显然被相关群体特有的遗传和环境因素以不同方式涵盖。
