Twins in genetic research

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 265-276

  Busjahn, A ^a   Boomsma, D ^b  

^a HealthTwist GmbH   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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