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Familial transmission of substance dependence: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and habitual smoking: a report from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Nov 1998
Bierut L J, Dinwiddie S H, Begleiter H, Crowe R R, Hesselbrock V, Nurnberger J I, Porjesz B, Schuckit M A, Reich T
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BACKGROUND: Alcoholism and substance dependence frequently co-occur. Accordingly, we evaluated the familial transmission of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine dependence and habitual smoking in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism. METHODS: Subjects (n=1212) who met criteria for both DSM-III-R alcohol dependence and Feighner definite alcoholism and their siblings (n=2755) were recruited for study. A...
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