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SUBMITTER: dos Santos VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3377718 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
dos Santos Vanessa Argondizo VA Chatkin Jose Miguel JM Bau Claiton Henrique Dotto CH Paixão-Côrtes Vanessa Rodrigues VR Sun Ye Y Zamel Noe N Siminovitch Katherine K
PloS one 20120618 6
Smoking behavior is a multifactorial phenotype with significant heritability. Identifying the specific loci that influence smoking behavior could provide important etiological insights and facilitate the development of treatments to further reduce smoking related mortality. Although several studies pointed to different candidate genes for smoking, there is still a need for replication especially in samples from different countries. In the present study, we investigated whether 21 positive signal ...[more]