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Religious Involvement, the Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism, and Drug Use in Young Adults

2013-11-05

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We examine whether the genetic basis for religious involvement is common to the genetic basis for drug use/abuse, helping to explain the inverse relationship between religiosity and drug use. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed data on 2,537 young adult siblings participating in Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on whom both genetic characteristics and religious participation were c...

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Literature Corpus work: 27156711-1284-5ee9-ba07-f71fb11a339a
DOI: 10.11114/ijsss.v2i1.235

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