Heritability of cigarette smoking and alcohol use in Chinese male twins: The Qingdao twin registry

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1278-1285

  Lessov Schlaggar, Christina N ^a   Pang, Zengchang ^b   Swan, Gary E ^a   Guo, Qian ^c   Wang, Shaojie ^b   Cao, Weihua ^d   Unger, Jennifer B ^c   Johnson, C Anderson ^c   Lee, Liming ^d  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Qingdao Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Alcohol; China; Cigarettes; Genetics; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENDER ISSUE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; TWINS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGDAO; SHANDONG;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33750202755     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl148     Document Type: Article

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