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Genetic risk for alcoholism relates to level of response to alcohol in Asian-American men and women.
Journal of studies on alcohol - 1 Jan 2002
Luczak Susan E, Elvine-Kreis Brenda, Shea Shoshana H, Carr Lucinda G, Wall Tamara L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have shown that Asians who possess a variant aldehyde dehydrogenase allele (ALDH2*2) have lower rates of alcohol consumption and dependence. Research in Asian men has shown that those with ALDH2*2 have greater responses to alcohol than do those without this genetic variant. The present study was designed to determine whether similar levels of response to alcohol, using objective and...
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