The genetics of smoking initiation and quantity smoked in Dutch adolescent and young adult twins.

doi:10.1023/a:1021618719735

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The genetics of smoking initiation and quantity smoked in Dutch adolescent and young adult twins.

Behavior genetics - 1 Nov 1999

Koopmans J R, Slutske W S, Heath A C, Neale M C, Boomsma D I

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Not much is known about the genetic and environmental determinants of various aspects of substance use in adolescents. This study examined whether the inheritance of initiation of tobacco use in adolescents is independent of the inheritance of the number of cigarettes smoked. Alternative multifactorial threshold models were applied to data on tobacco use in 1676 Dutch adolescent twin pairs. The three models that...

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Adolescent
Adult
Child
Diseases in Twins
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Netherlands
Smoking
Social Environment

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PMID: 10857244
DOI: 10.1023/a:1021618719735

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