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Genetic Susceptibility to Sickness Absence is Similar Among Women and Men: Findings From a Swedish Twin Cohort

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Pia Svedberg*
Affiliation:
Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Annina Ropponen
Affiliation:
Ergonomics, Institute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Kristina Alexanderson
Affiliation:
Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Paul Lichtenstein
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Jurgita Narusyte
Affiliation:
Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
*
address for correspondence: Pia Svedberg, PhD, Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Berzelius väg 3, 6th floor, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: pia.svedberg@ki.se