Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 11 , Pages 727-732 , November 2007

The relationship of maternal smoking to psychological problems in the offspring

  • Tanya Maria May Button

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute for Behavioral Genetics, 447 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0447, USA. Tel.: +1 303 735 3152; fax: +1 303 492 8063.
    • TMMB is supported by the National Institute for Drug Abuse, grant DA011015.
    • ,
  • Barbara Maughan

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
    • BM is supported by the Medical Research Council.
    • Tel.: +44 20 7848 0470; fax: +44 20 7848 0866.
    • ,
  • Peter McGuffin

      Affiliations

    • MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, 16 DeCrespigny Park, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK
    • Tel.: +44 20 7848 0871; fax: +44 20 7848 0866.

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PII: S0378-3782(07)00132-6

doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.07.006

Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 11 , Pages 727-732 , November 2007

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