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A Frailty Model of Segregation Analysis: Understanding the Familial Transmission of Alcoholism

✍ Scribed by Heping Zhang; Kathleen Merikangas


Book ID
110724784
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
944 KB
Volume
56
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-341X

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