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A non-synonymous variant in ADH1B is strongly associated with prenatal alcohol use in a European sample of pregnant women.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Nov 2009
Zuccolo Luisa, Fitz-Simon Nicola, Gray Ron, Ring Susan M, Sayal Kapil, Smith George Davey, Lewis Sarah J
Abstract excerpt
Pregnant women are advised to abstain from alcohol despite insufficient evidence on the fetal consequences of moderate prenatal alcohol use. Mendelian randomization could help distinguish causal effects from artifacts due to residual confounding and measurement errors; however, polymorphisms reliably associated with alcohol phenotypes are needed. We aimed to test whether alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) gene variants...
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