Alcoholism and Alcoholic Organ Damage and Genetic Polymorphisms of Alcohol Metabolizing Enzymes in Chinese Patients

doi:10.1002/hep.510250121

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Alcoholism and Alcoholic Organ Damage and Genetic Polymorphisms of Alcohol Metabolizing Enzymes in Chinese Patients

1 Jan 1997

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It is still not clear why some alcoholic patients acquire certain organ-specific complications of alcoholism whereas other alcoholic patients acquire different ones. As we know the liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), and cytochrome P4502E1 (P4502E1) are polymorphic at the ADH2, ADH3, and ALDH2 loci and the 5'-flanking region of the P4502E1. The aim of this study was to investigate...

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