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Associations of ALDH2 and ADH1B genotypes with response to alcohol in Asian Americans.
Journal of studies on alcohol - 1 Mar 2005
Cook Travis A R, Luczak Susan E, Shea Shoshana H, Ehlers Cindy L, Carr Lucinda G, Wall Tamara L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Individuals with alcohol dependence are less likely to possess variant alleles of the alcohol-metabolizing genes, aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2*2) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH1B*2), than non-alcohol-dependent controls. It is hypothesized that the mechanism through which these alleles protect against alcohol dependence is by causing elevations in acetaldehyde, which in turn cause an increased response...
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