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Alcoholism: the dissection for endophenotypes.
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience - 1 Jan 2005
Hines Lisa M, Ray Lara, Hutchison Kent, Tabakoff Boris
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Alcohol dependence (alcoholism) is a complex disorder attributed to the interaction of genetic and environmental factors that form a collage of "disease" predisposition, which is not identical for every alcohol-dependent individual. There is considerable evidence to demonstrate that genetic predisposition accounts for roughly half the risk in the development of alcohol dependence. Both family and population...
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