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Season-of-birth and “age incidence” effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

T. J. Crow
T. J. Crow*
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Warneford Hospital Oxford OX3 7JX
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 168 , Issue 2 , February 1996 , pp. 251
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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