Variation in the oxytocin receptor gene is associated with pair-bonding and social behavior.

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  2012

• Venue

  Biological Psychiatry

• Publication date

  2012-03-01

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  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.09.002PMID 22015110PMCID PMC3266986
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