Heritability of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions
✍ Scribed by Daniël S. van Grootheest; Dorret I. Boomsma; John M. Hettema; Kenneth S. Kendler
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 147B
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4841
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