How gene-environment interactions shape biobehavioural development: Lessons from studies with rhesus monkeys

Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems: From Genes to Social Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7-23

  Suomi, Stephen J ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203868706     Document Type: Chapter

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