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Molecular genetics of successful smoking cessation: convergent genome-wide association study results.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Jun 2008
Uhl George R, Liu Qing-Rong, Drgon Tomas, Johnson Catherine, Walther Donna, Rose Jed E, David Sean P, Niaura Ray, Lerman Caryn
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CONTEXT: Smoking remains a major public health problem. Twin studies indicate that the ability to quit smoking is substantially heritable, with genetics that overlap modestly with the genetics of vulnerability to dependence on addictive substances. OBJECTIVES: To identify replicated genes that facilitate smokers' abilities to achieve and sustain abstinence from smoking (herein after referred to as quit-success...
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