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Cohort Effects in the Genetic Influence on Smoking.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2016
Domingue Benjamin W, Conley Dalton, Fletcher Jason, Boardman Jason D
Abstract excerpt
We examine the hypothesis that the heritability of smoking has varied over the course of recent history as a function of associated changes in the composition of the smoking and non-smoking populations. Classical twin-based heritability analysis has suggested that genetic basis of smoking has increased as the information about the harms of tobacco has become more prevalent-particularly after the issuance of the...
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