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The TaqIA polymorphism linked to the DRD2 gene is related to lower attention and less inhibitory control in alcoholic patients.
European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists - 1 Jan 2006
Rodríguez-Jiménez R, Avila C, Ponce G, Ibáñez M I, Rubio G, Jiménez-Arriero M A, Ampuero I, Ramos J A, Hoenicka J, Palomo T
Abstract excerpt
The TaqIA polymorphism linked to the DRD2 gene has been associated with alcoholism. The aim of this work is to study attention and inhibitory control as per the continuous performance test and the stop task in a sample of 50 Spanish male alcoholic patients split into two groups according to the presence of the TaqIA1 allele in their genotype. Our results show that alcoholics carrying the TaqIA1 allele present...
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