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Monoamine oxidases and alcoholism: studies in unrelated alcoholics, normal controls and alcoholic families.
Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire). Supplement - 1 Jan 1994
Parsian A, Suarez B K, Tabakoff B, Hoffman P, Ovchinnikova L, Fisher L, Cloninger C R
Abstract excerpt
Monoamine oxidases (A and B) are of great interest in connection with alcoholism. Low MAO activity has been found in the brains and the platelets of alcoholics and their relatives supporting the hypothesis that low MAO activity is a biological marker for vulnerability to misuse. In order to determine the role of the MAO genes in alcoholism we have measured MAO-B activity and typed two simple sequence repeats (one...
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