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Dense genomewide linkage scan for alcohol dependence in African Americans: significant linkage on chromosome 10.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Jan 2009
Gelernter Joel, Kranzler Henry R, Panhuysen Carolien, Weiss Roger D, Brady Kathleen, Poling James, Farrer Lindsay
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BACKGROUND: Alcohol dependence (AD) is costly to societies worldwide, moderately heritable, and genetically complex. Risk loci in several populations have been identified with genetic linkage analysis. To date, there has been no published linkage study of AD focused on African Americans (AAs). METHODS: We completed a genomewide linkage scan with approximately 6000 single nucleotide polymorphism markers to map...
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