High ethanol tolerance in young adults is associated with the low- activity variant of the promoter of the human serotonin transporter gene

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 147-150

  Türker, Timucin ^a   Sodmann, Richard ^a   Goebel, Ursula ^a   Jatzke, Susanne ^b   Knapp, Michael ^c   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^b   Schuster, Roland ^a   Schütz, Harald ^a   Weiler, Günter ^a   Stöber, Gerald ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Association study; Ethanol tolerance; Linkage; Serotonin transporter gene

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRUG TOLERANCE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032486455     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00347-4     Document Type: Article

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