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Hundreds of Genetic Variants Implicated in Tobacco, Alcohol Use

Jan 15, 2019
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – In a study published yesterday in Nature Genetics, an international team of researchers reported that 566 genetic variants in 406 loci may be associated with multiple stages of tobacco use as well as alcohol use, with 150 of those loci evidencing pleiotropic association.

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