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Bipolar Affective Disorder and Thalassaemia Minor – a Genetic Linkage?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ashok N. Singh
Affiliation:
St Brigid's Hospital, Ardee, Co. Louth, Eire
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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