The familial aggregation of cannabis use disorders

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 622-629

  Merikangas, Kathleen R ^a   Li, Julan Julia ^b   Stipelman, Brooke ^a   Yu, Kelly ^a   Fucito, Lisa ^a   Swendsen, Joel ^c   Zhang, Heping ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; Assortative mating; Cannabis; Comorbidity; Family study; Gene environment interaction; Mood disorder; Substance use disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SPOUSES;

EID: 62649119663     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02468.x     Document Type: Article

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