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Transactions Between Substance Use Intervention, the Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Gene, and Peer Substance Use Predicting Youth Alcohol Use.
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research - 1 Jan 2018
Cleveland H Harrington, Griffin Amanda M, Wolf Pedro S A, Wiebe Richard P, Schlomer Gabriel L, Feinberg Mark E, Greenberg Mark T, Spoth Richard L, Redmond Cleve, Vandenbergh David J
Abstract excerpt
This study investigated the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene's moderation of associations between exposure to a substance misuse intervention, average peer substance use, and adolescents' own alcohol use during the 9th-grade. OXTR genetic risk was measured using five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and peer substance use was based on youths' nominated closest friends' own reports of alcohol, cigarette, and...
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