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Maternal docosahexaenoic acid intake levels during pregnancy and infant performance on a novel object search task at 22 months

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Maternal docosahexaenoic acid intake levels during pregnancy and infant performance on a novel object search task at 22 months. / Rees, Alison; Sirois, Sylvain; Wearden, Alison.
In: Child Development, Vol. 85, No. 6, 11.2014, p. 2131-2139.

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Rees A, Sirois S, Wearden A. Maternal docosahexaenoic acid intake levels during pregnancy and infant performance on a novel object search task at 22 months. Child Development. 2014 Nov;85(6):2131-2139. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12280

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Rees, Alison ; Sirois, Sylvain ; Wearden, Alison. / Maternal docosahexaenoic acid intake levels during pregnancy and infant performance on a novel object search task at 22 months. In: Child Development. 2014 ; Vol. 85, No. 6. pp. 2131-2139.

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