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Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and genetic overlap with other health-related traits in UK Biobank (N=112 117).
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Oct 2017
Clarke T-K, Adams M J, Davies G, Howard D M, Hall L S, Padmanabhan S, Murray A D, Smith B H, Campbell A, Hayward C, Porteous D J, Deary I J, McIntosh A M
Abstract excerpt
Alcohol consumption has been linked to over 200 diseases and is responsible for over 5% of the global disease burden. Well-known genetic variants in alcohol metabolizing genes, for example, ALDH2 and ADH1B, are strongly associated with alcohol consumption but have limited impact in European populations where they are found at low frequency. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of self-reported...
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