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Committee on Gulf War and Health, Volume 10: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War; Board on the Health of Select Populations; Institute of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Cory-Slechta D, Wedge R, editors. Gulf War and Health: Volume 10: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War, 2016. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2016 Mar 16.

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