Article
No association between alcoholism and multiple polymorphisms at the dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2) in three distinct Taiwanese populations.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Mar 1996
Lu R B, Ko H C, Chang F M, Castiglione C M, Schoolfield G, Pakstis A J, Kidd J R, Kidd K K
Abstract excerpt
This study examined whether there is evidence for an association between alcoholism and the alleles of the TaqI A, TaqI B, and short tandem repeat polymorphisms (STRP), both individually and as haplotypes, at the dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2) in males of three populations from Taiwan. We studi...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Alcoholism
- Alleles
- Ethnicity
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Genetic
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Receptors, Dopamine D2
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Taiwan