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The transmethylation and one-carbon cycle hypotheses of schizophrenia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

J. R. Smythies
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , November 1983 , pp. 711 - 714
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