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No association of the structural dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) variant 311Cys with alcoholism.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 May 1996
Finckh U, von Widdern O, Giraldo-Velasquez M, Podschus J, Dufeu P, Sander T, Harms H, Schmidt L G, Rommelspacher H, Rolfs A
Abstract excerpt
The human dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) has been implied in the vulnerability for alcoholism and/or the modification of its severity. This is supported through animal experimental and pharmacological data. We analyzed the DRD2 311Ser/Cys polymorphism in 312 German alcoholics and 131 ethnically matched controls to investigate the association of genetic DRD2 variants with alcoholism or clinical characteristics of...
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