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Convergence of genome-wide association and candidate gene studies for alcoholism.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Dec 2012
Olfson Emily, Bierut Laura Jean
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BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have led to a paradigm shift in how researchers study the genetics underlying disease. Many GWA studies are now publicly available and can be used to examine whether or not previously proposed candidate genes are supported by GWA data. This approach is particularly important for the field of alcoholism because the contribution of many candidate genes remains...
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