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The genetics of addiction: alcohol-dependence and D3 dopamine receptor gene.
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Nov 2001
Gorwood P, Limosin F, Batel P, Duaux E, Gouya L, Adès J
Abstract excerpt
Alcohol-dependence is a complex phenotype, with behavioral, psychological, pharmacological, medical and social dimensions. Aggregation studies, adoption and twin researches have demonstrated that the vulnerability to alcohol-dependence is at least in part linked to genetic factors, the genetic vulnerability to alcoholism being mainly not substance-specific. There are numerous candidate genes, but the D3 dopamine...
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