Healthy Twin: A Twin-Family Study of Korea — Protocols and Current Status
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Healthy Twin: a twin-family study of Korea--protocols and current status.
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عنوان ژورنال: Twin Research and Human Genetics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1832-4274,1839-2628
DOI: 10.1375/twin.9.6.844