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Season-of-birth and “age incidence” effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

T. J. Crow*
Affiliation:
Warneford Hospital Oxford OX3 7JX
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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