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- Published in issue October 2, 2012.
- Published first August 27, 2012.
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- Madeline H. Meiera,b,1,
- Avshalom Caspia,b,c,d,e,
- Antony Amblere,f,
- HonaLee Harringtonb,c,d,
- Renate Houtsb,c,d,
- Richard S. E. Keefed,
- Kay McDonaldf,
- Aimee Wardf,
- Richie Poultonf, and
- Terrie E. Moffitta,b,c,d,e
- aDuke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, Center for Child and Family Policy,
- bDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, and
- cInstitute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
- dDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710;
- eSocial, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom; and
- fDunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: madeline.meier{at}duke.edu.
Author contributions: M.H.M., A.C., and T.E.M. designed research; M.H.M., A.C., A.A., H.H., R.H., R.S.E.K., K.M., A.W., R.P., and T.E.M. performed research; M.H.M., A.C., R.H., and T.E.M. analyzed data; and M.H.M., A.C., and T.E.M. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
See Commentary on page 15970.
See full research article on page E2657 of www.pnas.org.
Cite this Author Summary as: PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1206820109.
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