Statistician – professor at Aarhus University
Joined January 2010
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15 Jul 2025
🙌 And to @NCRRCBP, Marianne Pedersen, @sussieantonsen, Emil Pedersen, @HorsdalThisted, Jean-Christophe Debost, @BoPreben, Liselotte Petersen, @bvilhjal, Jørgen Feldbæk Nielsen, Jeppe Klok Due, Anders Søgaard, @christian_igel, Wes Thompson, Chun Fan, @WrayNaomi, @John_J_McGrath
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Using Danish data on >3M people, we estimate absolute and relative risks, heritability & non-familial cases
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15 Jul 2025
Highly heritable: 45% (depression) to 77% (cannabis use disorder)
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15 Jul 2025
💡Why it matters:
• Family history alone can’t identify most cases
• We need both population-level and personalized strategies
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15 Jul 2025
🔗“Absolute and relative risks of mental disorders in families: a Danish register-based study”
👉 thelancet.com/journals/lanps…
📌Key findings:
• Mental disorders are highly heritable – but most cases have no family history
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People with affected 1st/2nd-degree relatives have higher risk
• Yet most cases are non-familial:
▫ 89% schizophrenia
▫ 60% depression
▫ 96% schizoaffective
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Esben Agerbo retweeted
21 Jun 2023
5 hurtige tips til ansøgninger om Sundhedsdatavidenskabelige (SDV) projekter hos #NVK
Læs mere på nationaltcenterforetik.dk/an…
#dkforsk
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10 Apr 2023
The Danish Civil Registration System versus the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register. New paper by @NCRRCBP and folks
10 Apr 2023
1/n Familial aggregation studies of diseases rely on familial information linked with health records. We investigated the completeness of familial links in the Danish Civil Registration System and described the future Danish Multi-Generation Register
doi.org/10.1177/140349482211…
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23 Mar 2023
Congratulations, Emil – beautiful presentation, impressive work!
@EmilP94637497 did an excellent job defending his PhD entitled: ”Leveraging family history and age-of-onset to boost GWAS power and disorder prediction”. Great discussion by the opponents @zkutalik, @michelnivard
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22 Feb 2023
Intriguing new statistical approach to distinguish between polygenic, de novo and Mendelian tail architecture via sibling gwas data
21 Feb 2023
Landmark new genetics manuscript just dropped.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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28 Jan 2023
GWAS of ADHD by @DemontisDitte, @AndersBorglum and team identified 27 genome-wide significant loci, show that 84–98% of ADHD-influencing variants are shared with other psychiatric disorders, and much more.
nature.com/articles/s41588-0…
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13 Jan 2023
Great to see this splendid, interesting and rich paper by tweetorial virtuoso @doctorveera. Well worth a read!
10 Jan 2023
Better late than never. Happy and relieved to share a final published version of one of my PhD projects in which we uncovered a fascinating genetic link between language ability, psychiatric risk and creativity. 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Esben Agerbo retweeted
13 Dec 2022
Who’s ready for an exposé of statistical reviews over Christmas?
Sneak preview of our stocking filler coming out in a few days in BMJ …
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6 Dec 2022
Individuals with mental disorders lose 10·5 years of working life. Those with schizophrenia, mood, neurotic, eating disorders lose 18.9, 10.3 and 6.7 yrs
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Esben Agerbo retweeted
6 Oct 2022
We would like to share with you our recently published article “Identification of shared and differentiating genetic risk for autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and case subgroups.” rdcu.be/cWmMA… Details below.
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