Lack of Associations of CHRNA5-A3-B4 Genetic Variants with Smoking Cessation Treatment Outcomes in Caucasian Smokers despite Associations with Baseline Smoking

• Rachel F. Tyndale ,

  * E-mail: r.tyndale@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Brain & Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Andy Z. X. Zhu,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Tony P. George,

  Affiliations Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Brain & Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Paul Cinciripini,

  Affiliation Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Larry W. Hawk Jr.,

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Center for Children and Families, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Robert A. Schnoll,

  Affiliation Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Gary E. Swan,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

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• Neal L. Benowitz,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Daniel F. Heitjan,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Caryn Lerman,

  Affiliation Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• PGRN-PNAT Research Group

  ¶Membership of the PGRN-PNAT Research Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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