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Three studies identify an association between genetic variation at a location on chromosome 15 and risk of lung cancer. But they disagree on whether the link is direct or mediated through nicotine dependence.

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  1. Stephen J. Chanock is in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4605, USA. chanocks@mail.nih.gov,

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  2. David J. Hunter is in the Department of Epidemiology, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. dhunter@hsph.harvard.edu,

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