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Date:7/1/2009

g>, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Bonn, the University Medical Center of Utrecht, Nijmegen Medical Center, the University of Verona, the Duke University Center for Population Genomics and Pharmacogenetics and the University of Sichuan, China. Follow up cohorts included those from Aarhus University, the National Serum Institute, and Bispebjerg and Glostrup hospitals, Denmark; Semmelweis University, Budapest; the Mental Health Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences; the Universities of Valencia and Santiago de Compostela, and the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain; The Northern Finland Birth Cohort; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; Universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Maastricht, the Netherlands. The institutions comprising the ISC and MGS can be found in papers published concurrently with the present study in the online edition of Nature.

Funding for the work included in this study was provided by the European Union through the SGENE consortium (www.SGENE.eu), by grants LSHM-CT-2006-037761, PIAP-GA-2008-218251, and HEALTH-F2-2009-223423; The U.S. National Institutes of Health; and the National Genomic Network of Germany.

About deCODE

deCODE is a bio-pharmaceutical company developing drugs and DNA-based tests to improve the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of common diseases. Its lead therapeutic programs, which leverage the company's expertise in chemistry and structural biology, include DG041, an antiplatelet compound being developed for the prevention of arterial thrombosis; DG051 and DG031, compounds targeting the leukotriene pathway for the prevention of heart attack; and DG071 and a platform for other PDE4 modulators with therapeutic applications in Alzheimer's disease and other conditions. deCODE is a global leader in human genetics, and has identified key variations in the genome (SNPs) conferring increased ris
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