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The use of Genetics in Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Extract

It is good to be back in the serenity of this assembly after an interval of ten years, but I must ask your forbearance in view of the fact that the topic assigned me today is rather similar to the one I discussed here in 1947.

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Anglo-American Symposium
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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