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A haplotype-specific linkage disequilibrium pattern of monoamine oxidase A gene associated with regular smoking in women.
The journal of gene medicine - 1 Dec 2019
Chiang Shang-Lun, Nithiyanantham Srinivasan, Velmurugan Bharath Kumar, Tu Hung-Pin, Lee Chien-Hung, Ko Ying-Chin
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BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking in women is raising a public health problem. The X-linked monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) was considered as a susceptibility gene to substance abuse of tobacco, but the evolutionary effect of MAOA may lead to a positive or negative association between genetic variations and smoking development among study regions. METHODS: Based on linkage disequilibrium (LD), we performed a...
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