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Genetic correlation between innate alcohol preference and fear-potentiated startle in selected mouse lines.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Jul 2007
Barrenha Gustavo D, Chester Julia A
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BACKGROUND: There is a high rate of co-occurrence between anxiety and alcohol-use disorders in humans that may arise from the inheritance of common genes that increase the risk for both psychiatric disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a genetic relationship exists between innate alcohol preference and propensity to develop learned fear, using the fear-potentiated startle (FPS) paradigm,...
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