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Heritability of cigarette smoking and alcohol use in Chinese male twins: the Qingdao twin registry.

International journal of epidemiology - 1 Oct 2006

Lessov-Schlaggar Christina N, Pang Zengchang, Swan Gary E, Guo Qian, Wang Shaojie, Cao Weihua, Unger Jennifer B, Johnson C Anderson, Lee Liming

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BACKGROUND: China has the world's largest concentration of smokers (350 million) and rising alcohol consumption, yet little is known about tobacco and alcohol use aetiology. In 2000, the Chinese National Twin Registry was established to provide a genetically informative resource for investigation of health behaviour including tobacco and alcohol use. METHODS: Using standard twin methodology, this study aimed to...

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PMID: 16847025
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl148

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