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DOPA decarboxylase gene is associated with nicotine dependence.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Dec 2006
Zhang Heping, Ye Yuanqing, Wang Xueqing, Gelernter Joel, Ma Jennie Z, Li Ming D
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INTRODUCTION: Cigarette smoking is a prevalent and harmful behavior. Although the heritability of nicotine dependence (ND) is well documented and many candidate genetic regions have been identified, few of them were confirmed. This may be, in part, due to analytic methods that sacrifice power. METHODS: Using a recently developed, more powerful method for testing association between a genetic marker and an ordinal...
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