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Support for previously identified alcoholism susceptibility Loci in a cohort selected for smoking behavior.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Dec 2005
Wilhelmsen Kirk C, Swan Gary E, Cheng Li S-C, Lessov-Schlaggar Christina N, Amos Christopher I, Feiler Heidi S, Hudmon Karen S, Ring Huijun Z, Andrews Judy A, Tildesley Elizabeth, Benowitz Neal L, Hops Hyman
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BACKGROUND: Alcohol consumption and alcoholism are heritable traits. Previous linkage analyses for alcoholism and related traits have identified several putative susceptibility loci. In this paper we use, for the first time, linkage analysis to search for alcoholism-related phenotypes in a family sample selected for smoking behavior. METHODS: Genome-wide model free linkage analysis was conducted for a variety of...
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