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SUBMITTER: Daw J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3659161 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daw Jonathan J Shanahan Michael M Harris Kathleen Mullan KM Smolen Andrew A Haberstick Brett B Boardman Jason D JD
Journal of health and social behavior 20130104 1
We investigate whether the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region (5HTTLPR), a gene associated with environmental sensitivity, moderates the association between smoking and drinking patterns at adolescents' schools and their corresponding risk for smoking and drinking themselves. Drawing on the school-based design of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in conjunction with molecular genetic data for roughly 15,000 respondents (including over 2,000 sibling pairs), we show ...[more]