Variation in European suicide rates is better accounted for by latitude and longitude than by national percentage of Finno-Ugrians and Type O blood: A rebuttal of Lester and Kondrichin (2004)

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 99, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 1243-1250

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Formann, Anton K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 14644394204     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.99.3f.1243-1250     Document Type: Article

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