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Associations among GABRG1, level of response to alcohol, and drinking behaviors.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Aug 2009
Ray Lara A, Hutchison Kent E
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BACKGROUND: Recent studies of the genetics of alcoholism have focused on a cluster of genes encoding for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA(A)) receptor subunits, which is thought to play a role in the expression of addiction phenotypes. This study examined allelic associations between 2 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the GABRG1 gene (rs1391166 and rs1497571) and alcohol phenotypes, namely level of response...
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