Environmental influences on familial resemblance for drug abuse in first-cousin pairs: a Swedish national study
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Within-family environmental transmission of drug abuse: a Swedish national study.
CONTEXT Drug abuse (DA) strongly runs in families. Does this result solely from genetic factors or does the family environment contribute? OBJECTIVE To determine the familial environmental contribution to the risk for DA. DESIGN Follow-up in 9 public databases (1961-2009) in siblings and spouses. SETTING Sweden. PARTICIPANTS A total of 137 199 sibling pairs and 7561 spousal pairs containing a p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0033-2917,1469-8978
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291713000846