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Hattab, M.W., Clark, S.L. & van den Oord, E.J.C.G. Overestimation of the classification accuracy of a biomarker for assessing heavy alcohol use. Mol Psychiatry 23, 2114–2115 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2017.181
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