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The association of ADH and ALDH gene variants with alcohol drinking habits and cardiovascular disease risk factors.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Nov 2008
Husemoen Lise Lotte Nystrup, Fenger Mogens, Friedrich Nele, Tolstrup Janne Schurmann, Beenfeldt Fredriksen Stine, Linneberg Allan
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BACKGROUND: Genetic variation in ethanol metabolism may have an influence on both alcohol drinking habits and the susceptibility to health effects of alcohol drinking. Such influences are likely to bias exposure-disease associations in epidemiologic studies of health effects of alcohol drinking. In a Caucasian population, we examined the association of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH)...
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