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Reappraisal of the association between the DRD2 gene, alcoholism and addiction.
European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists - 1 Mar 2000
Gorwood P, Batel P, Gouya L, Courtois F, Feingold J, Adès J
Abstract excerpt
We analysed the impact of the TaqI A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene on the risk for alcoholism, trying to depict three explanations frequently proposed to explain discrepancies in association and linkage studies: that the A1 allele may act as a marker rather than as a vulnerability factor, that stratification biases and unevaluated controls may explain positive results, and that the A1 allele is...
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