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Familial confounding of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring substance use and problems.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Nov 2012
D'Onofrio Brian M, Rickert Martin E, Langström Niklas, Donahue Kelly L, Coyne Claire A, Larsson Henrik, Ellingson Jarrod M, Van Hulle Carol A, Iliadou Anastasia N, Rathouz Paul J, Lahey Benjamin B, Lichtenstein Paul
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CONTEXT: Previous epidemiological, animal, and human cognitive neuroscience research suggests that maternal smoking during pregnancy (SDP) causes increased risk of substance use/problems in offspring. OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent to which the association between SDP and offspring substance use/problems depends on confounded familial background factors by using a quasi-experimental design. DESIGN: We used 2...
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