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Family-based and case-control study of DRD2, DAT, 5HTT, COMT genes polymorphisms in alcohol dependence.
Neuroscience letters - 13 Dec 2006
Samochowiec Jerzy, Kucharska-Mazur Jolanta, Grzywacz Anna, Jabłoński Marcin, Rommelspacher Hans, Samochowiec Agnieszka, Sznabowicz Mariusz, Horodnicki Jan, Sagan Leszek, Pełka-Wysiecka Justyna
Abstract excerpt
The paper focuses on such candidate gene polymorphisms that alter alcoholism-related intermediate phenotypes including: dopaminergic system polymorphic variants (DRD2 -141C Ins/Del in promoter region, exon 8 and DRD2 TaqI A and DAT 40bp VNTR genes polymorphisms) that cause predisposition to severe alcoholism (haplotype Ins/G/A2); COMT Val158Met gene polymorphism related to differences in executive cognitive...
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