Tobacco and alcohol use 2019 GWAS: European ancestry

Summary statistics are available for download from the GWAS Catalog.

Publications

Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use
Liu M et al.
Nat Genet. 2019 Feb;51(2):237-244. doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0307-5. Epub 2019 Jan 14.
PMID: 30643251

Phenotypes

• Alcoholic drinks per week
• Age of initiation of regular smoking
• Number of cigarettes per day
• Regular smoking at any time
• Smoking cessation

Experiment summary

This study analyzed genetic associations for tobacco and alcohol usage in 632,802 individuals of European ancestry.