Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 261-267 , July 2004

Personality disorders in a total population twin cohort with eating disorders

  • K Ilkjaer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to K. Ilkjaer, M.D., Centre of Eating Disorders, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Odense University Hospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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  • L Kortegaard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • ,
  • K Hoerder

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
    • ,
  • J Joergensen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Esbjerg, Denmark
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  • K Kyvik

      Affiliations

    • The Danish Twin Register, Epidemiology Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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  • C Gillberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden
    • University of London, St Georges’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

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☆ Supported by The Foundation of the Danish Health Agency (Sundhedspuljen), the Gangsted Foundation, Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Hermansens’s Memorial Foundation, Dr. J. Madsen’s and wife Olga’s Foundation, King Christian X’s Foundation, and The Research Foundation of the Danish Medical Board.

PII: S0010-440X(04)00044-6

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.03.008

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 261-267 , July 2004

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