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Chunk #17 — Materials and Methods — Ethics statement

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Sex differences in genetic architecture of complex phenotypes?
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All projects that supplied data have been reviewed and approved by the Central Ethics Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam , an Institutional Review Board certified by the US Office of Human Research Protections (IRB number IRB-2991 under Federal wide Assurance-3703; IRB/institute code NTR 03-180). For non-survey research projects involving adults (18 years and above) participants provide written informed consent themselves. For children younger than 12 years, their parents or legal representatives give written informed consent; for children between 12 and 18 years, both parent and the children themselves sign the informed consent forms.