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Sandra Sanchez-Roige1, Nancy J Cox2, Eric O Johnson3

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.

Drug and Alcohol Dependence
|February 25, 2021
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Keywords:
AlcoholConsumptionDependenceGeneticsNicotinePheWASPolygenic analysis

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