Exploring the inter-relationship of smoking age-at-onset, cigarette consumption and smoking persistence: Genes or environment?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1357-1367

  Morley, Katherine I ^a,b,d   Lynskey, Michael T ^a,c   Madden, Pamela A F ^c   Treloar, Susan A ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMETRY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; TWINS; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 34547830214     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291707000748     Document Type: Article

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