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Tyrosine hydroxylase and dopamine D4 receptor allelic distribution in Scandinavian chronic alcoholics.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Feb 1997
Geijer T, Jönsson E, Neiman J, Persson M L, Brené S, Gyllander A, Sedvall G, Rydberg U, Wasserman D, Terenius L
Abstract excerpt
Associations of polymorphic genetic markers at the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) loci were examined in Scandinavian chronic alcoholics (n = 72) and control subjects (n = 67). Patients were divided into subgroups with regard to the presence of parental alcoholism and age of onset. Neither the TH nor the DRD4 allele distributions were significantly different when alcoholic samples were...
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