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Adjusting for abstinence time in semen analyses: some considerations

K A Michels¹, K Kim¹, E H Yeung¹

¹Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.

|November 19, 2016

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