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Alcohol-related genes show an enrichment of associations with a persistent externalizing factor.
Journal of abnormal psychology - 1 Oct 2016
Ashenhurst James R, Harden K Paige, Corbin William R, Fromme Kim
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Research using twins has found that much of the variability in externalizing phenotypes-including alcohol and drug use, impulsive personality traits, risky sex, and property crime-is explained by genetic factors. Nevertheless, identification of specific genes and variants associated with these traits has proven to be difficult, likely because individual differences in externalizing are explained by many genes of...
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