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Parental smoking and adolescent problem behavior: an adoption study of general and specific effects.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Oct 2008
Keyes Margaret, Legrand Lisa N, Iacono William G, McGue Matt
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OBJECTIVE: It is essential to understand the effect of parental smoking on offspring tobacco use. In biologically related families, parents who smoke may transmit a nonspecific genetic risk for offspring disinhibited behavior, including tobacco use. Studying adoptive families allows one to control for genetic confounding when examining the environmental effect of exposure to parental smoking. The purpose of this...
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