Association of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit α4 polymorphisms with nicotine dependence in 5500 Germans

Pharmacogenomics Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 219-224

  Breitling, L P ^a   Dahmen, N ^b   Mittelstrass K ^c   Rujescu, D ^d   Gallinat, J ^e   Fehr, C ^b   Giegling, I ^d   Lamina, C ^c,f   Illig, T ^c   Muller H ^a   Raum, E ^a   Rothenbacher, D ^a   Wichmann, H E ^c   Brenner, H ^a   Winterer, G ^g  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^g HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 67849084986     PISSN: 1470269X     EISSN: 14731150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2009.6     Document Type: Article

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