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Depression vulnerability, cigarette smoking, and the serotonin transporter gene.
Addictive behaviors - 1 Mar 2005
Brody Cindy L, Hamer Dean H, Haaga David A F
Abstract excerpt
People with current or past depression are more likely to have been smokers at some point in their lives. Smokers with depression histories are also less likely to quit. Attempts to understand this relationship are important insofar as they can help treatment efficacy for this group of smokers. Prior research indicates that different genetic variations affect the relationship between smoking and neuroticism. This...
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