The genetics of tea and coffee drinking and preference for source of caffeine in a large community sample of Australian twins

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1510-1517

  Luciano, Michelle ^a   Kirk, Katherine M ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Coffee consumption; Genetic and environmental influences; Tea consumption

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; TASTE PREFERENCE; TEA; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAFFEINE; COFFEE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEA;

EID: 26644456938     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01223.x     Document Type: Article

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