Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking interacts with a polymorphism in the α6 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene to influence drug use and striatum volume in adolescence

• Published in: Molecular psychiatry Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 6 - 8
• Main Authors: Lotfipour, S, Leonard, G, Perron, M, Pike, B, Richer, L, Séguin, J R, Toro, R, Veillette, S, Pausova, Z, Paus, T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 2010; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 3' Untranslated Regions; Acetylcholine; Adolescent; Behavioral Sciences; Biological Psychology; Chi-Square Distribution; Corpus Striatum; Female; Genetic aspects; Health aspects; Humans; letter-to-the-editor; Life Sciences; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neurons and Cognition; Neurosciences; Pharmacotherapy; Physiological aspects; Pregnancy; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; Psychiatry; Receptors; Receptors, Nicotinic; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Smoking; Smoking in pregnancy; United States
• ISSN: 1359-4184; 1476-5578
• DOI: 10.1038/mp.2009.63