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The MAO-A gene, platelet MAO-B activity and psychosocial environment in adolescent female alcohol-related problem behaviour.
Drug and alcohol dependence - 11 Jan 2008
Nilsson Kent W, Wargelius Hanna-Linn, Sjöberg Rickard L, Leppert Jerzy, Oreland Lars
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BACKGROUND: Antisocial behaviour has been associated with polymorphic variants in candidate genes and recently also gene-environmental interaction models have been presented. It has been suggested that antisocial behaviour, associated with alcohol consumption in males, is related to a variation in the monoamine oxidase A gene (MAO-A) promoter. Furthermore, platelet MAO-B activity has in several studies been...
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