The Vietnam Era Twin Registry: a resource for medical research.

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Published in Public Health Rep on September 13, 1990

Authors

W G Henderson1, S Eisen, J Goldberg, W R True, J E Barnes, M E Vitek

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Veterans Affairs, Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines, IL.

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