Smoking remains associated with education after controlling for social background and genetic factors in a study of 18 twin cohorts

Smoking remains associated with education after controlling for social background and genetic factors in a study of 18 twin cohorts

Abstract We tested the causality between education and smoking using the natural experiment of discordant twin pairs allowing to optimally control for background genetic and childhood social factors. Data from 18 cohorts including 10,527 monozygotic (MZ) and same-sex dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs discor...

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Main Authors: Karri Silventoinen, Maarit Piirtola, Aline Jelenkovic, Reijo Sund, Adam D. Tarnoki, David L. Tarnoki, Emanuela Medda, Lorenza Nisticò, Virgilia Toccaceli, Chika Honda, Fujio Inui, Rie Tomizawa, Mikio Watanabe, Norio Sakai, Margaret Gatz, David A. Butler, Jooyeon Lee, Soo Ji Lee, Joohon Sung, Carol E. Franz, William S. Kremen, Michael J. Lyons, Catherine A. Derom, Robert F. Vlietinck, Ruth J. F. Loos, Per Tynelius, Finn Rasmussen, Nicholas G. Martin, Sarah E. Medland, Grant W. Montgomery, Ingunn Brandt, Thomas S. Nilsen, Jennifer R. Harris, Jessica Tyler, John L. Hopper, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Nancy L. Pedersen, Anna K. Dahl Aslan, Juan R. Ordoñana, Juan F. Sánchez-Romera, Lucia Colodro-Conde, Esther Rebato, Dongfeng Zhang, Zengchang Pang, Qihua Tan, Judy L. Silberg, Hermine H. Maes, Dorret I. Boomsma, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Tellervo Korhonen, Jaakko Kaprio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17536-x

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