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Serotonergic pathway genes and subtypes of alcoholism: association studies.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jun 2001
Parsian A, Cloninger C R
Abstract excerpt
Disturbances of the serotonergic pathway have been implicated in many psychiatric disorders, including alcoholism, aggression, schizophrenia and depression. The personality dimension of harm avoidance is correlated positively with the activity of mesolimbic serotonergic neurons. The goal of this study was to determine the role of the genes in this pathway in the development of type II alcoholism. A sample of...
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