Acknowledgements

DUNEDIN STUDY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SECTION updated for Oct 2023

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The Dunedin Study was approved by the University of Otago Ethics Committee. Participants gave written informed consent before participating.

The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit is supported by the New Zealand Health Research Council (Programme Grant 16-604).

The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit at University of Otago is within the Ngāi Tahu tribal area who we acknowledge as first peoples, tangata whenua (translation: people of this land).

This research received support from

The US-National Institute on Aging grant R01AG069939 (to study substance use, health, and aging, please cite in all papers touching on these topics)

The US-National Institute on Aging grant R01AG032282 (funding for 45 and 52; please cite in all papers),

The UK Medical Research Council grant MR/X021149/1 (funding for phase 52, please cite in all papers),

Author X was supported by [name, name, your own funding sources here, if you don’t know ask somebody],

Grants you might also acknowledge, depending on the nature of the paper:

The US-National Institute on Aging grant R01AG073207 (funding for the Pace of Aging and DunedinPACE; please cite in all papers using aging measures),

The US-National Institute on Aging grant 5P30AG034424 (funding for wristbands for airborne toxins, XRF metals assessment, and geocoding of SM’s neighborhoods, please cite in all papers using these),

US NIA 1R01AG049789: the brain imaging grant “Neural signatures of healthy and unhealthy aging” (please cite in any papers using IQ, neuropsych test measures, or on brain-related topics).

If reporting genomic data: This work used a high-performance computing facility partially supported by grant 2016-IDG-1013 from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.”

We would like to acknowledge the assistance of the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute Molecular Genomics Core for the generation of data for the manuscript.

We thank the Dunedin Study members, their [parents], [teachers], [partners], [children] and [peer informants]. We also thank Dunedin Unit Director, Professor Reremoana Theodore [if not a co-author), Unit research staff, [names of any principal investigators who shared data with you, if they are not coauthors], late Unit Director, Emeritus Distinguished Professor Richie Poulton, for leadership during the cohort’s transition from young adulthood to aging (2000-2023), and Study founder, Dr Phil A. Silva.

Research assistance was provided by [name, name].

Helpful comments on earlier drafts were provided by [name,  name].

For official crime data we thank the Dunedin Police [if you use police data].

* Institutions have become really strict about the way their names appear on publications so they get credit for papers when electronic search engines allocate products to universities and departments. For the Dunedin main investigators, the affiliations are:

Avshalom Caspi: MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Terrie E. Moffitt: MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.****