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    • Exposure to air pollution from traffic and neurodevelopmental disorders in Swedish twins 

      Gong, Tong; Almqvist, Catarina; Bölte, Sven; Lichtenstein, Paul; Anckarsäter, Henrik; Lind, Tomas; Lundholm, Cecilia; Pershagen, Göran (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-17)
      Background: Recent studies have reported associations between air pollution exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders in children but the role of pre- and postnatal exposure has not been elucidated. Aim: We aimed ...

    • Editorial: The association between caesarean section and asthma or allergic disease continues to challenge 

      Almqvist, Catarina; Öberg, Anna Sara (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)

    • Twins' risk of childhood asthma mediated by gestational age and birthweight 

      Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Lundholm, Cecilia; Almqvist, Catarina (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)
      Background: Children born with low gestational age (GA) or low birth weight (BW) are at increased risk of asthma. Twins as compared to singletons are on average more likely to be born with lower GA and BW, and have been ...

    • Predictors of adolescents' consent to use health records for research and results from data collection in a Swedish twin cohort 

      Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Lundholm, Cecilia; Örtqvist, Anne K; Hellner Gumpert, Clara; Anckarsäter, Henrik; Lundström, Sebastian; Almqvist, Catarina (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)
      Introduction: Nonrandom selection into a study population due to differences between consenters and non-consenters may introduce participation bias. Past investigations of factors predicting consent to collection of medical ...

    • Increased risk for substance use-related problems in autism spectrum disorders : a population-based cohort study 

      Butwicka, Agnieszka; Långström, Niklas; Larsson, Henrik; Lundström, Sebastian; Serlachius, Eva; Almqvist, Catarina; Frisén, Louise; Lichtenstein, Paul (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)
      Despite limited and ambiguous empirical data, substance use-related problems have been assumed to be rare among patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Using Swedish population-based registers we identified 26,986 ...

    • Population-based data on asthma and allergic disease call for advanced epidemiologic methods 

      Almqvist, Catarina; Lundholm, Cecilia (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)

    • Cohort profile : Swedish Twin Study on Prediction and Prevention of Asthma (STOPPA) 

      Almqvist, Catarina; Örtqvist, Anne K; Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Lundholm, Cecilia; Lichtenstein, Paul; Magnusson, Patrik K E (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)
      Asthma is a common childhood disease and several risk factors have been identified, however the impact of genes and environment is not fully understood. The aim of the Swedish Twin study On Prediction and Prevention of ...

    • Air pollution exposure during pregnancy and childhood autistic traits in four European population-based cohort studies : the ESCAPE project 

      Guxens, Monica; Ghassabian, Akhgar; Gong, Tong; Garcia-Esteban, Raquel; Porta, Daniela; Giorgis-Allemand, Lise; Almqvist, Catarina; Aranbarri, Aritz; Beelen, Rob; Badaloni, Chiara; Cesaroni, Giulia; de Nazelle, Audrey; Estarlich, Marisa; Forastiere, Francesco; Forns, Joan; Gehring, Ulrike; Ibarluzea, Jesus; Jaddoe, Vincent W; Korek, Michal; Lichtenstein, Paul; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J; Rebagliato, Marisa; Slama, Remy; Tiemeier, Henning; Verhulst, Frank C; Volk, Heather E; Pershagen, Göran; Brunekreef, Bert; Sunyer, Jordi (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)
      Background: Prenatal exposure to air pollutants has been suggested as a possible etiologic factor for the occurrence of autism spectrum disorder. Objectives: We aimed to assess whether prenatal air pollution exposure ...

    • Perinatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution and autism spectrum disorders 

      Gong, Tong; Dalman, Christina; Wicks, Susanne; Dal, Henrik; Magnusson, Cecilia; Lundholm, Cecilia; Almqvist, Catarina; Pershagen, Göran (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-14)
      Background: Studies from the United States indicate that exposure to air pollution in early life is associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children, but the evidence is not consistent with European data. ...

    • Association between parental age and asthma in a population-based register study 

      Almqvist, Catarina; Olsson, Henrik; Ullemar, Vilhelmina; D'Onofrio, Brian M; Frans, Emma; Lundholm, Cecilia (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-13)
      In a nationwide population-based study with family design, we found an association between decreasing parental age and asthma in early childhood. The effect was independent of familial and potentially confounding factors.

    • Familial liability for eating disorders and suicide attempts : evidence from a population registry in Sweden 

      Yao, Shuyang; Kuja-Halkola, Ralf; Thornton, Laura M; Runfola, Cristin D; D'Onofrio, Brian M; Almqvist, Catarina; Lichtenstein, Paul; Sjölander, Arvid; Larsson, Henrik; Bulik, Cynthia M (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-13)
      Importance: Suicide attempts are common in individuals with eating disorders. More precise understanding of the mechanisms underlying their co-occurrence is needed. Objective: To examine the association between ...

    • Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms and the development of adolescent alcohol problems : a prospective, population-based study of Swedish twins 

      Quinn, Patrick D; Pettersson, Erik; Lundström, Sebastian; Anckarsäter, Henrik; Långström, Niklas; Hellner Gumpert, Clara; Larsson, Henrik; Lichtenstein, Paul; D'Onofrio, Brian M (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-09)
      Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk of problematic alcohol and other substance use in adolescence. This study used data from an ongoing, prospective, population-based twin ...

    • Childhood injury after a parental cancer diagnosis 

      Chen, Ruoqing; Wallin, Amanda Regodon; Sjölander, Arvid; Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur; Ye, Weimin; Tiemeier, Henning; Fall, Katja; Almqvist, Catarina; Czene, Kamila; Fang, Fang (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-09)
      A parental cancer diagnosis is psychologically straining for the whole family. We investigated whether a parental cancer diagnosis is associated with a higher-than-expected risk of injury among children by using a Swedish ...

    • Maltreatment-associated neurodevelopmental disorders : a co-twin control analysis 

      Dinkler, Lisa; Lundström, Sebastian; Gajwani, Ruchika; Lichtenstein, Paul; Gillberg, Christopher; Minnis, Helen (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-09)
      BACKGROUND: Childhood maltreatment (CM) is strongly associated with psychiatric disorders in childhood and adulthood. Previous findings suggest that the association between CM and psychiatric disorders is partly causal and ...

    • Is there a female protective effect against attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Evidence from two representative twin samples 

      Taylor, Mark J; Lichtenstein, Paul; Larsson, Henrik; Anckarsäter, Henrik; Greven, Corina U; Ronald, Angelica (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-02)
      Objective: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is more common in males than females, yet little is known about why this is the case. We aimed to test for the existence of a ‘female protective effect’ against ...

    • Nationwide population-based cohort study of psychiatric disorders in individuals with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility syndrome and their siblings 

      Cederlöf, Martin; Larsson, Henrik; Lichtenstein, Paul; Almqvist, Catarina; Serlachius, Eva; Ludvigsson, Jonas F (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-02)
      Background: To assess the risk of psychiatric disorders in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and hypermobility syndrome. Methods: Nationwide population-based matched cohort study. EDS, hypermobility syndrome and psychiatric ...

    • Effect of co-twin gender on neurodevelopment symptoms : a twin register study 

      Eriksson, Jonna M; Lundström, Sebastian; Lichtenstein, Paul; Bejerot, Susanne; Eriksson, Elias (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-02)
      Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are neurodevelopmental disorders thought to have both genetic and environmental causes. It has been hypothesized that exposure ...

    • Cognitive ability and risk for substance misuse in men : genetic and environmental correlations in a longitudinal nation-wide family study 

      Latvala, Antti; Kuja-Halkola, Ralf; D'Onofrio, Brian M; Larsson, Henrik; Lichtenstein, Paul (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-03-02)
      Aims: To investigate the association between cognitive ability in late adolescence and subsequent substance misuse-related events in men, and to study the underlying genetic and environmental correlations. Design: ...

    • Depression or anxiety in adult twins is associated with asthma diagnosis but not with offspring asthma 

      Tedner, Sandra G; Lundholm, Cecilia; Olsson, Henrik; Almqvist, Catarina (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-01-17)
      BACKGROUND: Asthma is common in both children and adults in the Western world, just like anxiety and depression. While some research has revealed that these diseases might share important environmental and pathophysiological ...

    • Robust linear models for cis-eQTL analysis 

      Rantalainen, Mattias; Lindgren, Cecilia M; Holmes, Christopher C (Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017-01-16)
      Expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL) analysis enables characterisation of functional genetic variation influencing expression levels of individual genes. In outbread populations, including humans, eQTLs are commonly ...