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Modeling the diagnostic criteria for alcohol dependence with genetic animal models.
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences - 1 Jan 2013
Crabbe John C, Kendler Kenneth S, Hitzemann Robert J
Abstract excerpt
A diagnosis of alcohol dependence (AD) using the DSM-IV-R is categorical, based on an individual's manifestation of three or more symptoms from a list of seven. AD risk can be traced to both genetic and environmental sources. Most genetic studies of AD risk implicitly assume that an AD diagnosis represents a single underlying genetic factor. We recently found that the criteria for an AD diagnosis represent three...
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