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Older Brothers and Older Sisters Odds Ratios in 36 Samples of Homosexual Males

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Blanchard, R. Older Brothers and Older Sisters Odds Ratios in 36 Samples of Homosexual Males. Arch Sex Behav 47, 829–832 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1160-4

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