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Spousal resemblance for smoking: Underlying mechanisms and effects of cohort and age.
Drug and alcohol dependence - 1 Aug 2015
Treur Jorien L, Vink Jacqueline M, Boomsma Dorret I, Middeldorp Christel M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In this study we ask why spouses resemble each other in smoking behaviour and assess if such resemblance depends on period of data collection or age. Spousal similarity may reflect different, not mutually exclusive, processes. These include phenotypic assortment (choice of spouse is based on phenotype) or social homogamy at the time spouses first meet, and marital interaction during the relationship....
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