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Common genetic contributions to alcohol and cannabis use and dependence symptomatology.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Mar 2010
Sartor Carolyn E, Grant Julia D, Bucholz Kathleen K, Madden Pamela A F, Heath Andrew C, Agrawal Arpana, Whitfield John B, Statham Dixie J, Martin Nicholas G, Lynskey Michael T
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BACKGROUND: Despite mounting evidence that use of and dependence on alcohol and cannabis are influenced by heritable factors, the extent to which heritable influences on these phenotypes overlap across the 2 substances has only rarely been explored. In the current study, we quantified cross-substance overlap in sources of variance and estimated the degree to which within-substance associations between use and...
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