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Association between COMT, PTSD, and increased smoking following hurricane exposure in an epidemiologic sample.
Psychiatry - 1 Jan 2009
Amstadter Ananda B, Nugent Nicole R, Koenen Karestan C, Ruggiero Kenneth J, Acierno Ron, Galea Sandro, Kilpatrick Dean G, Gelernter Joel
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Tobacco smoking has been found to increase after the experience of a traumatic event and has been associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Initiation and persistence of cigarette smoking is moderately heritable; two recent investigations have implicated the COMT Val158Met (also known as rs4680) polymorphism in smoking age of initiation, dependence, as well as in quantity and frequency of smoking. To...
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