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Heritability of smoking initiation and nicotine dependence.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jul 2005
Vink Jacqueline M, Willemsen Gonneke, Boomsma Dorret I
Abstract excerpt
In contrast to other aspects of smoking behavior, little attention has been paid to the genetics of nicotine dependence. In this paper, three models (single liability dimension, independent liability dimension and combined model) have been applied to data on smoking initiation and nicotine dependence (n = 1572 Dutch twin pairs, mean age 30.5). A combined model best described the data. This model postulates a...
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