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The interactive effect of neighborhood peer cigarette use and 5HTTLPR genotype on individual cigarette use.
Addictive behaviors - 1 Dec 2014
Daw Jonathan, Boardman Jason D, Peterson Rachel, Smolen Andrew, Haberstick Brett C, Ehringer Marissa A, Ennett Susan T, Foshee Vangie A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Previous cross-sectional research has shown that adolescents' cigarette use is interactively associated with that of their school peers and their 5HTTLPR genotype, such that the cigarette use of persons with more copies of the 5HTTLPR*S' allele is more dependent on school peers' cigarette use behaviors than their counterparts. This analysis seeks to extend this novel finding by examining whether the...
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