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5.3 Early biological factors
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Relevant news and research: Early biological factors

Albayrak, M. and Turhan, K. (2025). Genetic and Environmental Factors of Nicotine Addiction: Examination of Multiple Substance Addictions. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40859751


El Dalatony, M. M., Elkhobby, A. A., Shubayr, M. A., Monshi, S. S., Al-Zalabani, A. H., El Desouky, E. D., Aldukhail, S. K., Alqahtani, M. M., Alhazmi, A. S. and Aldossary, M. S. (2025). Prevalence and predictors of tobacco use among Saudi adolescents: the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2022. BMC Public Health, 1, 2733. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40797248


Johnson, E. C., Lai, D., Balbona, J. V., Miller, A. P., Hatoum, A. S., Deak, J. D., Jennings, M., Baranger, D. A. A., Galimberti, M., Sanichwankul, K., Thorgeirsson, T., Colbert, S. M. C., Adhikari, K., Docherty, A. R., Degenhardt, L., Edwards, T., Fox, L., Giannelis, A., Jeffries, P. W., Korhonen, T., Morrison, C. L., Nunez, Y. Z., Palviainen, T., Su, M. H., Romero Villela, P. N., Wetherill, L., Willoughby, E. A., Zellers, S. M., Bierut, L. J., Buchwald, J., Copeland, W. E., Corley, R. P., Friedman, N. P., Foroud, T. M., Gillespie, N. A., Gizer, I. R., Heath, A. C., Hickie, I. B., Kaprio, J., Keller, M. C., Lee, J. J., Lind, P., Madden, P. A., Maes, H. H. M., Martin, N. G., McGue, M., Medland, S. E., Nelson, E. C., Pearson, J., Porjesz, B., Stallings, M. C., Vrieze, S., Wilhelmson, K. C., Kranzler, H. R., Walters, R. K., Polimanti, R., Malison, R., Zhou, H., Stefansson, K., Sanchez-Roige, S., Potenza, M., Mutirangura, A., Shotelersuk, V., Kalayasiri, R., Edenberg, H. J., Gelernter, J. and Agrawal, A. (2025). Multi-ancestral genome-wide association study of clinically defined nicotine dependence reveals strong genetic correlations with other substance use disorders and health-related traits. Psychol Med, e234. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40831304


Siembida, E. J., Greene, B., Oh, E. J., Wiseman, K. P., Basile, M., Vadhan, N. P. and Diefenbach, M. A. (2025). Tobacco and other substance co-use among adolescents and young adults with cancer who use tobacco: prevalence and associations with nicotine dependence and depression. Fam Med Community Health, 3. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40819909


Hulsmans, D. H. G., Dieleman, J., Kleinjan, M., Luijten, M. and Otten, R. (2025). Temporal effects of environmental tobacco smoke exposure: An ecological momentary assessment study among adolescent never- and experimental smokers. Addict Behav, 108379. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40347563


Yang, H., Cheng, A., Zhu, D., Zhao, M. and Xi, B. (2025). Childhood Smoking Initiation, Genetic Susceptibility, and Incident Cardiovascular Diseases in Adulthood. J Adolesc Health. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40382723


Chenoweth, M. J., Lerman, C., Knight, J. and Tyndale, R. F. (2025). Sex dependent genetic architecture of biochemically verified tobacco use. Psychiatry Res, 116465. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40174410


Yang, L., Li, J., Chen, Y., Wei, Y., Song, C., Zhang, J., Dai, L., Shi, Y., Xiong, Z., Shan, Y. and Huang, X. (2025). Association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and smoking behaviors in adult offspring. Front Public Health, 1505418. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40226319


Maraqa, B., Abu Mayaleh, M., Arafeh, S., Altell, K., Khleif, A., Najjar, A. and Abu-Radwan, B. (2025). Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Smoking Attitudes and Behaviors Among Adolescents in the Gaza Strip: Findings From the 2019 Global Youth Tobacco Survey. Tob Use Insights, 1179173X251314649. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39830674


Agbaje, A. O. (2024). Accelerometer-based sedentary time and physical activity with incident and progressive tobacco smoking in 2503 children: A 13-year mediation and temporal longitudinal study. Behav Res Ther, 104674. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39733609


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