Familial influences on gambling behavior: an analysis of 3359 twin pairs.

doi:10.1046/j.1360-0443.1998.93913758.x

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Familial influences on gambling behavior: an analysis of 3359 twin pairs.

Addiction (Abingdon, England) - 1 Sept 1998

Eisen S A, Lin N, Lyons M J, Scherrer J F, Griffith K, True W R, Goldberg J, Tsuang M T

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BACKGROUND: Pathological gambling is becoming an increasing problem in the United States as the number of legalized gambling establishments grows. To examine vulnerability to pathological gambling, we estimated the familial contributions (i.e. inherited factors and/or experiences shared by twin s...

Topics

Adult
Family
Gambling
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pedigree
Prevalence
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic

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