Paternal Age and General Cognitive Ability—A Cross Sectional Study of Danish Male Conscripts

John McGrath; Preben Bo Mortensen; Carsten Bøcker Pedersen; Vera Ehrenstein; Liselotte Petersen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077444

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Paternal Age and General Cognitive Ability—A Cross Sectional Study of Danish Male Conscripts

John McGrath,

Affiliations Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Richlands, Australia
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Preben Bo Mortensen,

Affiliations National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, Denmark, CIRRAU, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Carsten Bøcker Pedersen,

Affiliations National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, Denmark, CIRRAU, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Vera Ehrenstein,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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Liselotte Petersen

* E-mail: llp@ncrr.dk

Affiliations National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, Denmark
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Paternal Age and General Cognitive Ability—A Cross Sectional Study of Danish Male Conscripts

John McGrath,
Preben Bo Mortensen,
Carsten Bøcker Pedersen,
Vera Ehrenstein,
Liselotte Petersen

Published: October 8, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077444

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