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Whole exome sequencing analysis identifies genes for alcohol consumption.
Nature communications - 10 Jul 2024
Kang Jujiao, Deng Yue-Ting, Wu Bang-Sheng, Liu Wei-Shi, Li Ze-Yu, Xiang Shitong, Yang Liu, You Jia, Gong Xiaohong, Jia Tianye, Yu Jin-Tai, Cheng Wei, Feng Jianfeng
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Alcohol consumption is a heritable behavior seriously endangers human health. However, genetic studies on alcohol consumption primarily focuses on common variants, while insights from rare coding variants are lacking. Here we leverage whole exome sequencing data across 304,119 white British individuals from UK Biobank to identify protein-coding variants associated with alcohol consumption. Twenty-five variants...
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