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Association of substance use disorders with childhood trauma but not African genetic heritage in an African American cohort.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Sept 2009
Ducci Francesca, Roy Alec, Shen Pei-Hong, Yuan Qiaoping, Yuan Nicole P, Hodgkinson Colin A, Goldman Lynn R, Goldman David
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OBJECTIVE: Genetic variation influences differential vulnerability to addiction within populations. However, it remains unclear whether differences in frequencies of vulnerability alleles contribute to disparities between populations and to what extent ancestry correlates with differential exposure to environmental risk factors, including poverty and trauma. METHOD: The authors used 186 ancestry-informative...
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