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Level of family dysfunction and genetic influences on smoking in women.
Psychological medicine - 1 Oct 2004
Kendler Kenneth S, Aggen Steven H, Prescott Carol A, Jacobson Kristen C, Neale Michael C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: An adoption study of alcoholism suggests that in women, the impact of genetic risk factors become greater in the presence of conflict in the family of origin. Is the same true for cigarette smoking (CS)? METHOD: We obtained, in a sample of 1676 twins from female female twin pairs from a population-based register, a measure of maximum lifetime CS (divided into six ordinal categories) and family...
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