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Objective
Familial and genetic factors seem to contribute to the development of depression but whether this varies with age at diagnosis remains unclear. We examined the influence of familial factors on the risk of depression by age at first diagnosis.
Methods
We included 23 498 monozygotic and 39 540 same‐sex dizygotic twins from the population‐based Danish Twin Registry, followed from 1977 through...