The length of a person’s fingers could reveal their risk of motor neurone disease, according to a study carried out by researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, London.
The study tested whether the most common form of the disease was related to the length of the ring and index finger in adults. The finger lengths of 110 men and women were measured. Just under half had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) the most common form of motor neurone disease. Both men and women with ALS were found to have relatively longer ring fingers than index fingers.
