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Sandra M Meier1, Manuel Mattheisen2, Ole Mors2

  • 1Sandra M. Meier, PhD, National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, and Mental Health Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Copenhagen Region, Denmark; Manuel Mattheisen, MD, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, and Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Ole Mors, PhD, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, and Research Department P, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark; Preben B. Mortensen, DrMedSc, National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, and The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, Denmark; Thomas M. Laursen, PhD, National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, and The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, Denmark; Brenda W. Penninx, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands smeier@econ.au.dk.

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