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Long tracks of homozygosity predict the severity of alcohol use disorders in an American Indian population.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jun 2021
Peng Qian, Ehlers Cindy L
Abstract excerpt
Runs of homozygosity (ROH) arise when an individual inherits two copies of the same haplotype segment. While ROH are ubiquitous across human populations, Native populations-with shared parental ancestry arising from isolation and endogamy-can carry a substantial enrichment for ROH. We have been investigating genetic and environmental risk factors for alcohol use disorders (AUD) in a group of American Indians (AI)...
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