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Evidence for the importance of the human dopamine transporter gene for withdrawal symptomatology of alcoholics in a German population.
Neuroscience letters - 15 Nov 2002
Wernicke Catrin, Smolka Michael, Gallinat Jürgen, Winterer Georg, Schmidt Lutz G, Rommelspacher Hans
Abstract excerpt
Two new polymorphisms in the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of the dopamine transporter (DAT1) gene, adjacent to the known variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) polymorphism, have been investigated in the present population-based association study including 351 alcoholics and 336 controls. The...
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