Article
Parental sex effect in families with alcoholism.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1999
Wyszynski D F, Panhuysen C I
Abstract excerpt
Parental sex effects have been shown to influence the inheritance of a number of complex disorders. In this paper we performed affected sib-pair analyses on 105 families with recurrent alcoholism to evaluate the effects that the parent of origin might have on this disorder. Three alternative classification schemes were used and the families were grouped as maternal, paternal, mixed, or unknown. Paternal effects...
Topics
- Alcoholism
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Testing
- Genomic Imprinting
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype