Article
Genetic variants and early cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence phenotypes in adolescents.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
O'Loughlin Jennifer, Sylvestre Marie-Pierre, Labbe Aurélie, Low Nancy C, Roy-Gagnon Marie-Hélène, Dugas Erika N, Karp Igor, Engert James C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: While the heritability of cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence (ND) is well-documented, the contribution of specific genetic variants to specific phenotypes has not been closely examined. The objectives of this study were to test the associations between 321 tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that capture common genetic variation in 24 genes, and early smoking and ND phenotypes in...
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