Body composition, smoking, and spontaneous dizygotic twinning.

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Published in Fertil Steril on December 04, 2008

Authors

Chantal Hoekstra1, Gonneke Willemsen, C E M Toos van Beijsterveldt, Cornelius B Lambalk, Grant W Montgomery, Dorret I Boomsma

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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