Human brain volume: What's in the genes?

Handbook of Behavior Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-157

  Peper, Jiska S ^a   Zwiers, Marcel P ^b,c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^d   Kahn, René S ^e   Pol, Hilleke E Hulshoff ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Donders Center for Neuroscience   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76727-7_10     Document Type: Chapter

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