Determining the Causes and Consequences of Nicotine Dependence: Emerging Genetic Research Methods

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Ware, Jennifer J ^a   Munafò, Marcus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Dependence; Genetics; GWAS; Mendelian randomisation; Nicotine; Phenotype refinement; Recall by genotype; Smoking; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905879586     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-014-0477-5     Document Type: Review

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