Heritability of cannabis initiation in Dutch adult twins

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 172-174

  Vink, Jacqueline M ^a   Wolters, Liselot M C ^a   Neale, Michael C ^a,b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannabis initiation; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS SMOKING; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FREEDOM; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC MODEL; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NETHERLANDS; POLICY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; NETHERLANDS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350746179     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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