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Comorbidity between bipolar disorder and alcohol use disorder: association of dopamine and serotonin gene polymorphisms.
Psychiatry research - 30 Mar 2010
Yasseen Baseer, Kennedy James L, Zawertailo Laurie A, Busto Usoa E
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Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental illness with high prevalence of co-occurring alcohol use disorder. Linkage studies have revealed several candidate genes in the dopaminergic and serotonergic pathways which may be associated with both bipolar and alcohol use disorders. We investigated the relationship between polymorphisms in candidate genes and alcohol use disorder comorbidity in bipolar patients. We...
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