Heritability of smoking, alcohol use, and psychological characteristics among adolescent twins in Qingdao, China

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 568-580

  Unger, Jennifer B ^a   Lessov Schlaggar, Christina N ^b   Pang, Zengchang ^c   Guo, Qian ^a   Ning, Feng ^d   Gallaher, Peggy ^a   Lee, Liming ^e   Cao, Weihua ^f   Conti, David ^f   Johnson, C Anderson ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control Preventation   (China)

^d PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent health; child health; family medicine; health education; health informatics; health management; health promotion; medical statistics; public health; smoking tobacco drug abuse

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; TWINS;

EID: 79960527878     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539509351052     Document Type: Article

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