Mating assortment and the liability to substance abuse

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Vanyukov, M M ^a   Neale, M C ^b   Moss, H B ^a   Tarter, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Contagion; Heritability; Social homogamy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 0030246875     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-8716(96)01255-0     Document Type: Article

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