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Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences Volume 124, 2019 - Issue 1: Uppsala Clinical Research Center - World-leading support for clinical sciences. Guest edited by Lars Berglund, Stefan James, and Johan Sundström
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Original Article

Rationale for a Swedish cohort consortium

Johan SundströmDepartment of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ;Uppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR), Uppsala, Sweden; Correspondence[email protected]
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Cecilia BjörkelundDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine/Primary Health Care, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;
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Vilmantas GiedraitisDepartment of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
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Per-Olof HanssonDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;
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Marieann HögmanDepartment of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-6392-6092
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Christer JansonDepartment of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
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Ilona KoupilDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Margareta KristensonDepartment of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Community Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;
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Ylva Trolle LagerrosDepartment of Medicine, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Huddinge, Sweden;
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Jerzy LeppertVästerås Centre for Clinical Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
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Lars LindDepartment of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
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Lauren LissnerDepartment of Public Health and Community Medicine/Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;
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Ingegerd JohanssonDepartment of Odontology, School of Dentistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;
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Jonas F. LudvigssonDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Pediatrics, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden;
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Peter M. NilssonDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Skane University Hospital, Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;
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Håkan OlssonDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Cancer Epidemiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8794-9635
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Nancy L. PedersenDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8057-3543
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Andreas RosenbladVästerås Centre for Clinical Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
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Annika RosengrenDepartment of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;
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Sven SandinDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; ;Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA;
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Tomas SnäckerströmUppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR), Uppsala, Sweden;
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Magnus StenbeckDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Stefan SöderbergDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, and Heart Center, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;
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Elisabete WeiderpassDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway; ;Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland; ;Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-0128
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Anders WanhainenDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
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Patrik WennbergDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, and;
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Isabel FortierResearch Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
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Susanne HellerUppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR), Uppsala, Sweden;
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Maria StorgärdsUppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR), Uppsala, Sweden;
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Bodil SvennbladUppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR), Uppsala, Sweden;
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Pages 21-28 | Received 30 Nov 2018, Accepted 30 Nov 2018, Published online: 08 Jan 2019

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