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Ethnic differences in level of response to alcohol between Chinese Americans and Korean Americans.
Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs - 1 Mar 2008
Duranceaux Nicole C E, Schuckit Marc A, Luczak Susan E, Eng Mimy Y, Carr Lucinda G, Wall Tamara L
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OBJECTIVE: Koreans have higher rates of alcohol-use disorders and family history of alcoholism, compared with Chinese. These differences likely reflect both environmental and genetic influences. One genetically influenced characteristic that may contribute to these ethnic differences is level of response to alcohol. Variant alleles of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH1B) genes are...
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