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Linkage scan of nicotine dependence in the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Family Alcoholism Study.
Psychological medicine - 1 Apr 2011
Gizer I R, Ehlers C L, Vieten C, Seaton-Smith K L, Feiler H S, Lee J V, Segall S K, Gilder D A, Wilhelmsen K C
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BACKGROUND: Nicotine dependence has been shown to represent a heritable condition, and several research groups have performed linkage analysis to identify genomic regions influencing this disorder though only a limited number of the findings have been replicated. METHOD: In the present study, a genome-wide linkage scan for nicotine dependence was conducted in a community sample of 950 probands and 1204 relatives...
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