The Genetic and Environmental Influences Contributing to the Association between Electronic and Conventional Cigarette Initiation.

Elizabeth C Prom-WormleyElizabeth K DoMegan E CookeJennifer CecilioneHermine H MaesElizabeth DoRoxann Roberson-Nay

Published in: Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2021)

This article is the first to use a sample of twin to estimate the contributions of genetic and environmental influences toward EC initiation and estimate the potential for overlapping influences with CC initiation. This study has implications for future debate about the etiology of EC and CC use with respect to potential overlapping genetic and environmental influences.

Keyphrases

human health
genome wide
copy number
risk assessment
life cycle