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Interest of adolescents in genetic testing for nicotine addiction susceptibility.
Preventive medicine - 1 Jan 2006
Tercyak Kenneth P, Peshkin Beth N, Wine Lauren A, Walker Leslie R
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OBJECTIVES: Genetic tests for nicotine addiction susceptibility may someday offer preventive medicine specialists new tools to reduce smoking among adolescents. This paper examines adolescents' interest in, and reasons behind interest in, such testing and correlates of interest. METHODS: The sample included 211 healthy patients (ages 13-21) recruited from Georgetown University Medical Center's adolescent medicine...
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