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Gene variant related to greater difficulty in quitting smoking and earlier lung cancer diagnosis

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People with a specific form of the CHRNA5 gene take an average of four years longer to quit smoking and are at greater risk for developing lung cancer four years earlier, compared to smokers without this gene variant. This is according to a meta-analysis of 24 studies examining variants in the...

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