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Genome-wide association study of nicotine dependence in American populations: identification of novel risk loci in both African-Americans and European-Americans.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Mar 2015
Gelernter Joel, Kranzler Henry R, Sherva Richard, Almasy Laura, Herman Aryeh I, Koesterer Ryan, Zhao Hongyu, Farrer Lindsay A
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BACKGROUND: We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of nicotine dependence defined on the basis of scores on the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence in European-American (EA) and African-American (AA) populations. METHODS: Our sample, from the one used in our previous GWAS, included only subjects who had smoked >100 cigarettes lifetime (2114 EA and 2602 AA subjects) and an additional 927 AA and 2003...
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