Genetic and environmental influences on early-age susceptibility and initiation of nicotine-containing product use: A twin-pairs study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Nicotine-containing products (NCPs) such as electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) are increasingly common throughout the landscape of youth use of nicotine-containing products (NCP), and have overtaken traditional cigarette smoking modalities. This study seeks to examine the genetic and environmental influences on liability for susceptibility and initiation of ENDS and other NCPs among US children.

Methods

Data were drawn from 886 monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs aged 9-10 years in the Adolescent Brain & Cognitive Development (ABCD) study at the baseline during 2016-2018. Heritability (h²) measured the proportion of the total phenotypic variation attributable to genes. Variance component models were utilized to analyze influences f

SUBMITTER: Kochvar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10660284 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature