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Why do young women smoke? II. Role of traumatic life experience, psychological characteristics and serotonergic genes.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Aug 2006
Lerer E, Kanyas K, Karni O, Ebstein R P, Lerer B
Abstract excerpt
Cigarette smoking is a complex behavioral phenotype to which environmental, psychological and genetic factors contribute. The purpose of this study was to investigate these multifactorial effects with a specific focus on young women and on genes that encode serotonin (5-HT) receptors and the 5-HT transporter. A case-control sample of female Israeli college students provided comprehensive background data and...
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