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Participation in a family-centered prevention program decreases genetic risk for adolescents' risky behaviors.
Pediatrics - 1 Sept 2009
Brody Gene H, Chen Yi-Fu, Beach Steven R H, Philibert Robert A, Kogan Steven M
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OBJECTIVE: The present research addressed the following important question in pediatric medicine: can participation in an efficacious preventive intervention ameliorate the risk that a genetic vulnerability factor is hypothesized to confer on increases in risk behaviors across preadolescence? METHODS: As part of the Strong African American Families preventive intervention study, data were collected from 641 black...
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