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Allelic variation of calsyntenin 2 (CLSTN2) modulates the impact of developmental tobacco smoke exposure on mnemonic processing in adolescents.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Apr 2009
Jacobsen Leslie K, Picciotto Marina R, Heath Christopher J, Mencl W Einar, Gelernter Joel
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BACKGROUND: Exposure to nicotine in tobacco smoke during development has been linked to subsequent deficits in attention and memory. The present study tested for evidence that genetic variation may contribute to individual differences in vulnerability to the effects of developmental exposure to tobacco smoke on memory and medial temporal lobe function in adolescents. METHODS: Verbal and visuospatial memory were...
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