Ethnicity and the Genetics of Smoking Behavior

May 28, 2012

In a paper published online in advance in Translational Psychiatry, a team led by researchers at nonprofit institute SRI International shows in a GWAS meta-analysis that a non-coding SNP on chromosome 15q25.1 is associated with smoking quantity — as measured by cigarettes per day — in African Americans.

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