Maternal smoking during pregnancy and adverse outcomes in offspring: Genetic and environmental sources of covariance

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 456-467

  Kuja Halkola, Ralf ^a   D'Onofrio, Brian M ^b   Larsson, Henrik ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children of siblings; Cousin comparison; Extended family model; Sibling comparison; Smoking during pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OFFENDER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING;

COGNITION; CRIMINALS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SMOKING;

EID: 84906809861     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-014-9668-4     Document Type: Article

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