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Smoking behavior is under the influence of a major quantitative trait locus on human chromosome 5q.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1999
Duggirala R, Almasy L, Blangero J
Abstract excerpt
Despite some evidence that smoking behavior is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, efforts at identifying specific genes that influence smoking are extremely limited. Using information on smoking behavior history for 973 individuals distributed across 105 COGA families and a multipoint variance components method, we tested for linkage between smoking behavior (as defined by number of cigarette...
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