Genetic predisposition to organ-specific endpoints of alcoholism

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1528-1533

  Reed, Terry ^a   Page, William F ^b   Viken, Richard J ^c   Christian, Joe C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Cirrhosis; Concordance; Psychosis; Twins

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; TWINS;

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030466376     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1996.tb01695.x     Document Type: Article

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