The Adult Netherlands Twin Register: twenty-five years of survey and biological data collection.

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Published in Twin Res Hum Genet on January 08, 2013

Authors

Gonneke Willemsen1, Jacqueline M Vink, Abdel Abdellaoui, Anouk den Braber, Jenny H D A van Beek, Harmen H M Draisma, Jenny van Dongen, Dennis van 't Ent, Lot M Geels, Rene van Lien, Lannie Ligthart, Mathijs Kattenberg, Hamdi Mbarek, Marleen H M de Moor, Melanie Neijts, Rene Pool, Natascha Stroo, Cornelis Kluft, H Eka D Suchiman, P Eline Slagboom, Eco J C de Geus, Dorret I Boomsma

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. a.h.m.willemsen@vu.nl

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