Genetic and Cultural Transmission of Smoking Initiation: An Extended Twin Kinship Model
- 30 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Behavior Genetics
- Vol. 36 (6) , 795-808
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-006-9085-4
Abstract
Considerable evidence from twin and adoption studies indicates that genetic and shared environmental factors play a significant role in the initiation of smoking behavior. Although twin and adoption designs are powerful to detect genetic and environmental influences, they do not provide information on the processes of assortative mating and parent–offspring transmission and their contribution to the variability explained by genetic and/or environmental factors.Keywords
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