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Chunk #7 — METHOD — Measures — Clinical Covariates

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Early onset alcohol use and self-harm: a discordant twin analysis.
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problems, defined as the presence of one or more conduct disorder symptoms (e.g., physical fighting, hurting animals, shoplifting). From this count variable, four dummy coded variables were created (all 4; 3 only; 2 only; 1 only). Lastly, gender was also included as a covariate but not in the discordant twin analyses, because twins are matched for gender.