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"Competing interests LVK has been a consultant for Teva and Lundbeck for the past 3 years. MV has been a consultant for Lundbeck and Janssen-Cilag within the last 3 years. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This study was supported by grants from the Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark (PhD student 164019 and the BIO study), The Danish Council for Independent Research, Medical Sciences (DFF4183–00570), the A.P. Møller Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Science (15–55), Beckett-Fonden (48282) and The Lundbeck Foundation (1-year scholarship for IJOM). A special thanks to Anne Præstegaard for her logistic and laboratory assistance throughout the study. Finally, our deepest gratitude to the laboratories of clinical pharmacology at Rigshospitalet, Bispebjerg Hospital, and Frederiksberg Hospital for making it possible to obtain the 8-oxodG and 8-oxoGuo analyses."