Welcome to
The National Centre for
Register-based Research
Research mainly related to schizophrenia, affective illness, and suicide
The centre houses the following major research projects
- SMARTbiomed: The Pioneer Centre for Statistical and computational Methods for Advanced Research to Transform Biomedicine
- CIRRAU: Aarhus University’s 6 year funding for continuation of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Register-based Research
- HOPE postpartum depression: A research program focused on causes and consequences of postpartum depression and other mental disorders observed after childbirth
Newest Publications
Bjørndal, L. D., Hegemann, L., Pettersen, J. H., Corfield, E. C., Hannigan, L. J., Yilmaz, Z., Costello, K., Ystrom, E., Reichborn-Kjennerud, T., Andreassen, O. A., Ask, H., Havdahl, A., Bulik, C. M. & Watson, H. J. (2026). Investigating Relationships Between Genetic Risk, Childhood Maltreatment, and Eating Disorders in Women. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 6(5), Article 100761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2026.100761
Eating Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Petersen, L. V. & Mortensen, P. B. (2026). Leveraging transdiagnostic genetic liability to psychiatric disorders to dissect clinical outcomes of anorexia nervosa. Molecular Psychiatry, 31(3), 1475-1484. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03264-x
Pedersen, E. M., Steinbach, J., Valstad, M., Ohlsson, H., Rasmussen, L. A., Eilertsen, E. M., Kendler, K. S., Vilhjálmsson, B. J., Schork, A. J. & Krebs, M. D. (2026). Lt-fgrs: a unifying R-package for the estimation of family-based genetic liabilities at population-scale. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.15.731517
Contact us
National Centre for Register-based Research
Aarhus University
Bartholins Allé 2, 8000 Aarhus C.
Tel: +45 8716 5312
EAN: 5798000418554
P.no. 1018467514