Similarities in the epidemiology of neural tube defects and coronary heart disease: is homocysteine the missing link?

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on December 01, 1999

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D H Stone1, P McCarron, G D Smith

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1: Department of Child Health, University of Glasgow.

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