Genetic Variations Put Youth At Higher Risk For Lifetime Of Tobacco Addiction
Friday, July 11, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
Common genetic variations affecting nicotine receptors in the nervous system can significantly increase the chance that European Americans who begin smoking by age 17 will struggle with lifelong nicotine addiction, according to researchers at the University of Utah and their colleagues at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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