Adoption studies

Obesity: Genomics and Postgenomics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 29-37

  Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a   Rasmussen, Finn ^b   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^b  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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