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Relationship between alcoholism and CYP2E1 C/D polymorphism.
Neuropsychobiology - 1 Nov 1998
Iwahashi K, Ameno S, Ameno K, Okada N, Kinoshita H, Sakae Y, Nakamura K, Watanabe M, Ijiri I, Harada S
Abstract excerpt
The genotypes of the CYP2E1 loci of 35 alcoholic and 130 nonalcoholic (healthy controls) Japanese were investigated to determine the relationship between CYP2E1 (C/D) polymorphism and susceptibility to alcohol dependence. There was a significant (d.f. = 1, chi2 = 11.0, p < 0.001) difference in the CYP2E1 C gene frequency between alcohol dependents (0.41) and controls (0.28), suggesting that the C gene of CYP2E1...
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