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Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence implicates a region on chromosome 11.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 May 2010
Edenberg Howard J, Koller Daniel L, Xuei Xiaoling, Wetherill Leah, McClintick Jeanette N, Almasy Laura, Bierut Laura J, Bucholz Kathleen K, Goate Alison, Aliev Fazil, Dick Danielle, Hesselbrock Victor, Hinrichs Anthony, Kramer John, Kuperman Sam, Nurnberger John I, Rice John P, Schuckit Marc A, Taylor Robert, Todd Webb B, Tischfield Jay A, Porjesz Bernice, Foroud Tatiana
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BACKGROUND: Alcohol dependence is a complex disease, and although linkage and candidate gene studies have identified several genes associated with the risk for alcoholism, these explain only a portion of the risk. METHODS: We carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on a case-control sample drawn from the families in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism. The cases all met diagnostic...
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