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Prenatal Hormones and IQ: Need for Sibling Controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Susan Resnick  and
Irving I. Gottesman
Susan Resnick
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Irving I. Gottesman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 2 , February 1978 , pp. 204 - 205
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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