Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The genetic basis of alcoholism

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22348705

Genome Biol. 2012 Feb 20;13(2):239. [Epub ahead of print]
The genetic basis of alcoholism: multiple phenotypes, many genes, complex networks.
Morozova TV, Goldman D, Mackay TF, Anholt RR.
Source
Department of Biology, Box 7617, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. anholt@ncsu.edu

ABSTRACT:
Alcoholism is a significant public health problem. A picture of the genetic architecture underlying alcohol-related phenotypes is emerging from genome-wide association studies and work on genetically tractable model organisms.

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